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Clip behaving oddly.
Hi,
I went into a client to give him some basic training on FCP (I usually do there video work for them however I am leaving the country soon), and he had captured an old VHS using a USB box so that he had a clip for us to play around with.
However something odd was happening when the clip was played back on the timeline or the view window. The clip would play, however once you stop playing the clip the play head would display a completely different part to the clip. Press play again and it starts from where you stopped it.
I have never come across this before and obviously it makes editing a bit harder if every time you stop playing back your sequence the shot displayed on the screen is different from the one that it should be.
If anyone could shed some light on why this might be happening I would be very grateful.
We are using the most recent version of FCP and editing on a MacPro.
Many thanks,
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[Martin Banks] ” If anyone could shed some light on why this might be happening I would be very grateful. “
I’d go straight to THIS-
[Martin Banks] “he had captured an old VHS using a USB box “I’d bet the clip is corrupt.
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Did you restart FCP?
Trash the Preferences? -
That’s what I thought. I knew it wasn’t FCP because I tried other clips, but I was just wondering if anyone knew why that might have happened to the VHS one, how it might get corrupted for example. I’m not used to importing VHS footage into FCP so it is new too me.
I’m hopefully looking to be enlightened on why :)…but obviously with out knowing which USB capture box was used I doubt it will be possible.
Thanks for taking the time to read it, and who knows, someone might know why 🙂
Many thanks,
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Video is not very compatible/reliable with USB connections.
USB capture devices are usually not much better in quality than “novelty toys.”
VHS is extremely “timebase” unstable.
Combine those, and you have…
well, you see what you have.Sorry.
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The USB device captured the footage into what format? What codec? It might be the fact that it is a non-native FCP codec that it is causing issues. Not all codecs are editable. And coming from USB, I’ll wager it is not an editable codec. YOu will need to convert it to DV/NTSC at least to work with it in FCP.
Shane
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