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FCP 601 splitting my clips
I am capturing over firewire from a JVC GY-HD250 into a 720p24 project. I like the feature of FCP splitting the clips on the start/stop, but it always cuts off about the first 5 seconds and no matter what i have tried i cannot capture a clip that starts right at the beginning of when the clip begins. I have unchecked the box in the log & capture windows that tells FCP to split the clips based on the start/stop, i have tried doing a “capture now” and it still splits the clips up. i tried a batch recapture of the logged clip and it still does it. is this a hardware problem with my camera or is FCP just acting weird? please help. thanks
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I’ve had the same problem and I think the “real” solution is to have 5 secs or more of pre-roll and not start your action until you have a little leader on your tape. Final Cut is set up to capture this way.
What you can do is go into your audio video settings and go to the tab marked device control presets. You probably already have this setting set to HDV Firewire, the default is 5 seconds pre-roll. You can’t change this preset, but if you duplicate it and rename your duplicate you can go in and change any setting you like. You can change the pre-roll setting to 1 (I don’t think you can make it 0).
As a good practice I would recommend pre-rolling your tape so you don’t lose a part of a valuable shot.
hope it helps,
Steve
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