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Convert DV AVI to DV MOV and retain timecode
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[Brent Hilgenkamp] “Buying a Mac, AppleCare, and FCP Studio is quite an investment compared to a $500 laptop doing what amounts to the same thing. In addition to that if a laptop gets dropped or damaged in some way a PC would be a lot cheaper and easier to replace.”
Assuming that your time is worth nothing, that’s true. But when you factor in the cost of your time, it may be quite a bargain to set up a MPB with FCP or at least Veescope or Scopebox.
Arnie
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Assuming that your time is worth nothing, that’s true. But when you factor in the cost of your time, it may be quite a bargain to set up a MPB with FCP or at least Veescope or Scopebox.
My reason for starting this thread was to find a simple way to get the video files I captured on a PC to work with FCP. If all I would have to do is run a script to process some files or put all the clips in a batch and let it go overnight then I have only added a trivial amount of time to my workflow – not enough to justify the price of the MPB setup. Unfortunately I have not found an automated process to make my timecode work in FCP. Otherwise the workflow is fine and does not take any extra time.
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An EDL needs both t/c and a reel number. A live captured file doesn’t have a reel number so recapturing off tape via an EDL will be a problem.
Assigning a reel number to a clip is a non issue. It takes 3 seconds in FCP to assign a reel number, and not even having a reel number on a clip is okay if I need to recapture footage that is only on one tape. If it’s more than 1 tape I can selectively pick which clips to capture, or assign reel numbers to the clip.
Why don’t you capture as a .mov on a PC. They can do it.
What software on a PC can do this? That would probably solve all of my issues
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I don’t understand why you don’t capture from tape into FCP. I mean, if you want to edit in FCP you will have to buy or rent a Mac or MBP with FCP anyway, or am I missing something?
Jaap
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Because on a busy weekend we can shoot upwards of 100 hours of footage. Capturing everything is not an option.
And yes, I realize that I need FCP to edit with FCP…… I already have the workstations.
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