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BATCH DIGITIZE WON’T WORK FOR CERTAIN CLIPS…
Hi everyone – I (finally) got the brand spankin- newest version of FCP (5.1.4) running on my desktop (MacPro running Tiger, internal drives), and I have this werid problem:
Every once in a while when I’m digitzing, i’ll create a clip in log and capture, go to batch digitize it, and it runs through the digitizing process, but then shows up as offline when the process is finished. I then go to re-link the clip, and it doesn’t exist in the capture scratch folder I’ve chosen. It seems to only happen with certain clips (both on the desktop and on my laptop – both running the newer version of FCP). Has anyone ever run into this oddity? For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to get these (specific) clips in. I’ve tried modifying the ins and outs a little, changing the name of the tape and clips, and it still doesn’t bring it in for whatever reason – I think it has something to do with the combination of the tape(s) itself and a bug with this ver of FCP(???) Any info anyone may have would be helpful!
Thanks all, in advance..
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3 Replies
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Hi Jennifer,
Trash your prefs might help.
I do not now whats causing these artifacts, however try to select your clip and delete in and out (if there are any) and then drag your clip from your browser to your logg and capture window. Then take away any “-@*.+&” in your file name. (As you’ve done before: maybe you also should try to change your in/out with a few frames.)
Log your clip and try to digitize.this is not a tested solution but maybe a workaround…
Good luck!
Andreas -
Thanks, Andreas – I tried your suggestions, no luck. I forgot to mention in my first post, that this was a project originally created in an earlier version of FCP. (And, as I mentioned, the same problem happened on two different computers – both with the same media / project files).
A friend suggested I do a “capture now” on the trouble clips, which I did, so I finally got them in. However, there’s over 100 hours of footage, with about 30 or so “trouble clips”, and as you can imagine, this is highly inconvenient.
Regardless, thanks for your suggestion, I appreciate it. Maybe we’ll see the day soon where we’re not all “Apple’s Guinea Pigs”.
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HI Jennifer,
Sorry it did not work out,
An other thought is to export your 100+ clips to XML and import them in a new project.
Then try to digitize.
Can´t promise you anything though…Hope this helps you out,
The best
Andreas
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