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Final Cut Pro capture problem/error
Hey everyone, I’m new here so be gentle 😉
Just want to say a thank you to everyone here for the help I have had from this site!!
Okay, so here is my problem to which I couldnt find a answer to on here anywhere.
OKay, so basically. I have a old beta sp deck, going thru to a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card. (I know, not the best, but its all I could afford, and well I’ve never had problems until now)
I also have a Keyspan RS-422 adaptor for VTR control.
My beta tape in question has a lot of time code breaks in it, so when I try and capture the whole tape, (time code in for the start, time code out for the end) It just cant do it, it keeps finding breaks. So I thought I’d just do a capture now, play the tape, hit capture now, and all will be fine. Which it is for 1 tape!!!
First tape, captured fine, no issues at all. But the second tape, I do not know why, Final Cut will not open it, read it, anything. It captured the whole 36 minutes, but on the Browser window this is what I have.
Duration: 00:00:00:00, Media start: 23:59:59:09, Media end: 23:59:59:09.
I thought, oh maybe it didnt capture at all while I was not sat at the desk. So I right click, show in finder, and there it is, all 16Gb of it!
I can open it with Quicktime player no problem, but Final Cut just wont see it. I deleted it from my browser window, then imported it, still nothing, deleted it, restarted the computer, imported it again, still nothing.
I do not know what else to do. I cant understand why it wont see it? Its clearly there in finder, I can watch it with Quicktime, but thats all I can do with it.
Yes I know I can re-capture it, but I dont see why I should as it is there on the computer! Final Cut is just playing silly buggers with me!!!
I did try dragging it straight to the timeline, and I get a error – Insufficient content for edit.
So…. What to do now…
Thanks in advance for any help 🙂
James
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2 Replies
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Try opening the file in software like Compressor, MPEGStreamclip etc and see if the file is OK. If so do a save as export in the same codec and it should write a file much faster than a real time recapture in a new QT wrapper. I suspect the fact that you code wraps over midnight is the problem. Re writing the file should set file start to zero.
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Hi there,
Sorry for the delay in replying, been couped up in hospital for the last 2/3 weeks!!Anyway, Michael’s idea worked. I opened it in MPEGStreamclip which worked fine, then exported it, then imported it into Final Cut and it worked great!
Thanks for your help both of you.
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