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Digitizing and capturing/ setting artificial timecode
Hi again,
I am trying to save time by using my canon camcorder as a digital converter from VHS and to capture the digital signal straight through firewire into FCP. Now what happens is that as I could see the footage in the log & capture window but not actualoly capture it due to the lack of a timecode I was wondering how to put an artificial timecode on it.
what i did is insert a recorded mini-dv into the camcorder and play it. It actually works and i can capture the footage using the other’s tape timecode… only the problem is that it does it for 3 seconds until FCP tells me that it has now reached the end of the tape and captured all footage between the strat to the end (basically the custom message of end of tape capture when capturing now)… However I the few seconds have been succesfully captured and are ready to be used … so it does work! but someohow it must think it is the end of the tape and does not want to continue. I am sure there are no minuscule timecode jump on the mini-dv cause i tried at severeal places and the message is the same.Does anyone know about this?
or in any case would someone may be know of another way, may be even from within FCP on how to put an artificial timecode on footage?
thanks a lot!
jasmine
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1 Reply
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In the capture settings tab of the log window switch machine controll to non-controlled device.
joe
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