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Crossgrade installed – now Reel, Media Start, Media End information disappears after capture
I tried to make the subject line say it all. I installed Final Cut Studio 5.0 on my G5 Quad. A few weeks later we put FC Express on one of our other machines. I then found out that I can’t load projects from it, because it had an incremental upgrade and I now need 5.1. So I ordered the crossgrade and installed it, and now I’ve got more problems.
Installing 5.0 was easy, and I was ready to do DV Firewire capture and edit instantly…no settings to tweak or anything. 5.1 has been giving me fits, defaulting to DF timecode and other little things that drive me nuts. But here’s the worst:
I try to organize my projects meticulously, because many come up for re-edit. I keep specific batch lists to recapture footage if I need, but with FCP it’s nice because the project file contains batch information. But now FCP 5.1 is hiding that information after I capture a clip using Batch Capture!
I have captured clips one at a time from DV tape without incident. But if I load a batch list and capture the footage, it sets all the Media Start value to 00:00:00;00 and blanks the Reel field.
Please help, I just started a major project that was behind schedule from the get-go, and now I’m really in a tight spot.
Thanks in advance,
Clint -
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Dude, welcome to the club is all i can say. What you need to be sure of, and I have been in long conversations on this forum about this, is double check your drop and non drop frames and make sure that FCP is digitizing whatever matches your tape tc format.
This is in no way scientific, but it solved issues for me. Make sure you make a duplicate of your 5.0 project before you open it with 5.1.2.
Jeremy
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Thanks a bunch. I had originally been getting weird errors about mixing DF/NDF time code, so I’d changed my capture preset…that apparently didn’t fix things entirely, it just made the error go away before capturing.
I created my own presets for capture settings and device control settings, quit FCP, started up again, and batched some footage. It appears to be working now. Thanks for the prompt response.
Clint
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No worries, glad you got it up and running.
Jeremy
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