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FCP capturing wrong time code
Hi all,
I am contracting out with a company PT and they just purchase a Canon XH A1s to shoot some HDV footage.
I’ve never shot HDV so this was all new to me. We shot in 24f with a free-running TC.
When I imported the footage into FCP it kept a) making new clips I hadn’t logged and b)captured my logged file(s) with different TC (which was accurate to the content on the tape but it wasn’t what I wanted)
I just went into ‘East Setup’ to get all the presets (what I thought was) accurate:
Format: HDV
Rate: 23.97fps
Use: HDV – 1080p24Any ideas to what is going on here??
*EDIT Capture Clip and Batch Capture will give these results. Capture Now gave me the correct TC…but that’s one clip at a time if I have to do it that way =(
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4 Replies
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This is why HDV does what it does.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1049485
Why it has a TC break when you start and stop the camera. When you log and capture, you need to make sure that you give yourself enough PRE-ROLL for each shot…at least 5 seconds. Especially with time of day code, as it is REALLY broken up. Don’t do this and FCP can’t get TC lock over a TC break, so it will not capture.
Time of Day code should be used SPARINGLY, and only in certain situations. Like you are on a two camera shoot and you can’t slate the shots, or for legal reasons, or as a way to track the time stuff takes place. But know the limitations of that timecode…and know that you need 5 seconds of time after you start the camera before you can capture footage.
Shane
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hmmm thanks Shane.
good to know, for next time…. I thought the Free Run TC was a good way to have a rough shot list, based on time of day, but now it sounds like it will cause me more grief than anything else
is my only option to capture the whole tape and pull clips from the digitzied footage??
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Well, I’d say either CAPTURE NOW and manually babysit the capture (again, make sure to leave that PreRoll in case you need to recapture). Or log the clips with the appropriate pre-roll. You cannot capture the full tape unless you dub it to another tape and stripe new code, or capture without timecode.
Shane
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It IS possible, but you need my FCPauxTC reader, and you have to have a deck that can output LTC.
Ingest the entire tape, make sure the LTC is coming in on an audio track, and use the FCPauxTC reader to find all the breaks, and subclip for you.
Bouke
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