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capturing DV footage (w/xl1) as seperate clips automatically HELP!
For the life of me I cannot get FCP to capture my DV footage from my XL1 as seperate clips. In other words I want FCP to create a new clip every time it senses that i started and stopped the record button. (i know where this is under the settings area but i must be doing something wrong since it’s not working. maybe i don’t understand the settings)
I DO NOT want to capture a long clip (or set the caputre limit) and then afterwards when i have one long clip ask FCP to detect the time code breaks and make subclips.
(if your wondering why the hassle, it is because i want to keep my hard drives formated as FAT32 so i can use them on PCs but it will not let me capture approx. more then 3 gigs at a time and i do not want to sit around stopping and starting the capure every 6 minutes. I want it to capture a whole tape while i take a nap, and it should be fine if it separates the clips automatically and then no clip will be over 3 gigs and the capturing will succeed without my baby-sitting the entire capture.)
thanks for the help! I have about 5-6 full tapes waiting for this answer!!!
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If you log the clips before you capture them, then go back and batch capture, you will get individual clips that are short.
Or you could just go to five minute time intervals, find the nearest camera stop point, and log that, go five minutes more, etc.
Or you could capture with imovie, which I believe separates clips on import. Then I think you can export the clips by dragging and dropping them from the Imovie clips pane.
This is second hand info, because I’ve never used imovie.
I usually watch my footage while it’s capturing, because the more I watch it, the more familiar with it I get. I haven’t tried taking a nap, but maybe I’d be less grouchy if I did.
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Look in the FC manual for “Start/Stop detect”.
iMovie is a bad solution because the files that produce are “DV Stream”. They use the DV codec but they are not .mov, so they must be always rendered by FC. And the worst is that do not support TC.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
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FCP does not automatically capture individual clips based on start/stop. It only does this after you have captured long clips.
My advise to you as far as your Fat 32 drives. Capture the way Apple/FCP likes it (Use log & Capture, most organized way to edit, Capture whole tape or Capture Now, least preferred)
HFS+ non-journaled drives. Once you are done capturing, copy those files onto your Fat drive.Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Hi Steve,
I have never used that function, but FC6.0.2 can do it. Have a look in the page 284 of the FC help:
Automatically creating subclips Using DV Start/Stop detection.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.
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