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cant find capture in point
Do not get it…I had captured footage on this laptop before. I tried using an external drive as well.
When I try to capture footage, I get an error message that says
“Can’t find capture in point. Try increasing preroll?”
Not sure what I’m doing wrong
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Are you trying to capture right at the head of the tape? The error message you’re getting usually comes up when you are trying to capture too close to the begining of the tape, or where the time code begins. Premiere needs a certain amount of head room in front of the portion you are trying to capture, so that the tape can get up to speed. I believe it also needs to read the time code as well. So if you’re trying to capture either right at the begining of the tape, or right where the time code starts, you’ll get the error message. You’re pretty much forced to set a “in” point further along in your tape, so that Premiere can get the tape up to speed and capture. Try just resetting your “in” point 1 sec later, and see if you can capture, and keep resetting a second further at a time until Premiere is able to capture the clip.
Not that it helps you now, but the following will ensure you don’t have this problem again:
-record 30 seconds bars & tone at the start of any new tape.
-“stripe” your tape; in other words, record the entire tape just black (with the lens cap on or whatever) so that you now have continous time code throughout the entire tape’s duration.
-record at least 5 seconds of “lead time” before every shot.
-if you are using a camera such as Canon’s XL2, utilize the “end search” feature. This will cause the camera to search for the end of the last shot, and ensure that you record continous time code. Many high end cameras have this feature. Its a button you push and then the camera finds the end of the last shot for you (really helpful feature). -
I’m having this same issue. It doesn’t matter what tape or camera. I have a video that starts at 01:38:04:03. I’m have an in point of 01:38:15:00 (11 seconds after the start of the timecode). Premiere searches back and forth at that point and then just stops and says it can’t find in point. There’s no start or stop in the footage on the tape.
DSR-70 Deck
I’ve had this problem with 3 different cameras also.
Premiere has one of the worst capture utilities I’ve ever used. It stops on just about EVERY single segment of my batch capture.
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