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Importing Video Files
I am going to be shooting with a Panasonic DVX 100. It will be at least 4 straight hours. I would like to take Firewire out of the camera while shooting to a La Cie 500 GB drive to capture the video file and after the shoot, connect the drive to my Mac and through FCP do a File Import on the video file from the La Cie drive to edit it in FCP. Will that work or do I need to do a simultaneous while live shooting, do an out of the camera firewire into my Mac, open FCP, Log & capture, designate the La Cie drive and get the file into FCP in that process. I just want to try to avoid having to take the time digitize at real time all of the video after video shoot. Thank you, Bob
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I do not believe there is any way to live capture like that in FCP. On location? I think it’s called from adobe will let you use your computer for a media drive but not final cut. I thought the same thing only using the uncontrolled device setting and there was no response or recording done, just time spent. When you shoot on a cam that uses tape, well you have to live with capturing. Or save time by logging the good takes and only capture those using batch capture.
But still, try it in fcp and see.
Cheers,
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You cannot shoot directly from camera to hard drive. You need a computer in between. Yes, you can use FCP’s log and capture, but you have to turn off deck control. And I’d roll tape at the same time as backup…BUT, the captured QT files and the tape will NOT have the same timecode. So take that as you man.
There is also VeeScope Live (https://www.dvdxdv.com) and Scopebox that do this…
Shane
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You need to use something like a Firestore to do this. Also look at AJA’s Ki Pro recorder and Convergent Design’s recorders.
Arnie
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Thank you, Shane, Bob
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