HDV Capturing Making it multiple lips

[David42]

I suspect that the HDV mpeg2 video is making TC discontinuities at the cam trigger points, and your settings (properly in my view) are causing the Capture aplet to continue capturing, while starting a new media file.

If FCP didn’t do this, Time Code errors would get burned in, countingforward continuously from the capture point, ignoring the jumps, or miscalculating the duration. You would be in a world of hurt and confusion if you tried to recapture from the resulting TC errors in the timeline.

HDV is affordable and nice looking, but GOP media is different. I think that’s one reason why FCP translates to apple’s intermediate codec.

When doing bulk capture (never more than 15 min. clips) I always start organizing bins by doing DV start-stop detect, which breaks things at the camera cuts, a benefit in my process.

Good cutting and clip-name-pasting.

[Markford Astina]

I’ve had the same problem.

I shot using the Sony Z1, and during capture, Final Cut seems to automatically segment the captured video everytime the record button was pushed (automatic start stop detection).

This is great but I’ve also noticed that Final Cut would skip the first few frames of the video (sometimes even upt to four seconds). So the heads of my clips are missing.

So ther were clips I had to recapture. But funny thing is: what Final Cut Pro captures in terms of the beginning of the clip is like a lottery – it changes each time (sometimes it’s 2 seconds after the clip has started sometimes it 1 second after the clip has started). One thing was consisetent though – It would never capture the first frame of the clip (unlike when editing DV)

I adjusted to this in the shoot by shooting more head room (pre roll) before the action began.

This is ok for controlled shoots but for documentary on-the-fly projects/materials – this could pose a problem.

Has anyone figured why this is happening?

Could it be a camera setting? (The timecode is continous though from the start to the end of the tape -meaning not timecode breaks)
Could it be a setting in Final Cut?

Any help and enlightenment to this would be great. Thanks.

Oh, Smoothe27, you might want to check the heads of your clips – some of them might be missing.

Cheers.

[Tom Wolsky]

There should be a checkbox in the capture window, which will let you switch this off. Not sure how reliable this in the version you’re using, or with that camera.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs