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HELP! FCPro Truncates Logged Clips on Batch Capture
Hi all – hoping someone might have an answer to this problem, which I’m now experiencing with frustrating regularity and desperately need to be resolved.
When I batch capture a series of clips I’ve already logged, almost all of them are significantly truncated at the end and none of them have the same duration as originally logged. For example, I will log a clip from 00:45:57:16-00:48:16:05 and the duration properly shows up as 00:02:18:20. But once I use batch capture and ingest the clip, the clip ins and outs have mysteriously changed themselves to 00:45:56:20-00:46:13:14, giving me a clip that’s just 00:00:16:25 in length! This happens for about 80% of my clips, the other 20% just have weird timing changes such as a clip of duration 00:00:47:27 (logged) changes to 00:00:48:22 (captured) – and I tripple-checked that the “add handles” option is not selected.
While I’m capturing, the system appears to be working fine. I’ve checked the tape timecode for breaks and found none, and I receive no error messages at all. I get a message that batch capture completed successfully but when I go to edit none of my clips are as I logged them, most unusably short.
For the specs, I’m running Final Cut Pro version 5.0.4 on a dual 2.3 GHz PowerMac G5 with 4.5 GB RAM and Mac OS X 10.4.3. My capture device is a JVC CU-VH1U Mini-DV deck connected via Firewire 400. The footage was originally shot on a Panasonic DVX100A in 24P mode (but not 24P Advanced mode) – so the video should be a standard 30fps.
I would greatly appreciate anyone’s help with this, as it’s basically halted my ability to edit. Many thanks in advance for your input.
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[random.debris] “My capture device is a JVC CU-VH1U Mini-DV deck”
Have you checked to see if that deck is supported by FCP? I remember a couple of years ago there were serious issues with FCP & JVC decks, owing to JVC’s ‘non-standard’ implementation of firewire.
The list of qualified devices can be found here:
https://images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/pdf/FinalCutPro_5.0_Qualified_20051223.pdf Arnie
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I’ve been having the same porblem and am glad you asked. The in time is always correct on my system. It’s the out time that mysteriously gets truncated. The batch capture always stops short around 50 seconds.
The deck is the Sony WV-DR5 (Japanese Model)
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