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end of reel batch capture problem
I’m having to recapture a lot of material, following the failure of a server. I’ve got a bin for each reel, and I’m finding that the final clip in each bin doesn’t capture – the reason being that when I captured I let the end of the play through and then pressed ESC to capture that clip, and it has logged itself with a few seconds longer than the actual timecode runs on the tape. This is particularly annoying if I’ve captured an entire reel in one clip – it all seems to capture but then because of a timecode discrepancy at the end fails.
Is it possible to alter the Media End timecode of the logged clip in the browser? – the final seconds are not usually usable material, and then I could bash through batch recapture quickly. What I’m having to do now is log a new clip, named identically, with the same in point and an adjusted out point and then reconnect the original clip to the media (despite complaints that it doesn’t match).
It’s a mystery to me how it creates a timecode longer than that on the original tape in the first place!
Thanks,
Peter
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4 Replies
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You should be able to manually change the “out timecode” in the out column of the browser. Once you do this to match your actual tape end time code you should be able to capture without any further problems. Just be sure to set the out point a few seconds “shorter” that your actual tape time code for safety (unless you really need those last few seconds of a particular tape.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Thanks, Richard. I can indeed change the timecode in the ‘Out’ column – but my understanding is that it is the Media Start and Media End that will determine what is batch captured – and there’s no way of editing the Media End, either in the browser or in the Item Properties. Or anwhere else that I can find…
Peter
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Interesting… It has been several years since I have even touched a tape, so I am quite rusty on this but I do remember fixing this same problem in the past the way I describe. I wonder if it is the difference of batch capturing shot by shot from a tape and capturing the entire tape down in one pass that could be the difference. I had always set my ins and outs and created a “batch list” and then went back and batched all the clips at one time so I ended up with a lot of individual clips in the bin. Did you say that you captured the “one pass” method? so you have one giant file in the bin? If this is the case then possibly just recapturing the entire tapes again and reconnecting to the new files would do the trick. You may get the warning that your new clips don’t match the original but it may still work.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com -
Hi Richard,
They were originally captured on the fly in the field – so no ins and outs set. Some are entire reels, most are split into several clips – in which case all except the last clip capture fine, just the final clip is the problem. I’ve tried adjusting the ‘out’ point but that doesn’t do it – and still can’t find anyway to adjust the Media End timecode.
Not to worry – I’m half way through the job now, so only about another half dozen final clips to re-log and capture!
Thanks for your input.
Peter
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