Is Final Cut the best way to capture Footage or is Imovie???

[Tom Wolsky]

Yes.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Can your camera record on a P2 card? Not sure what the benefit is. You’re still recording HDV.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Christina Rule]

True. Sorry I’m so use to shotting with an HVX.
Maybe Quicktime is the best solution at this point?

@Rob Grauert Thanks for the article! Since Final Cut is not a necessary platform that I need to use (not really cutting up the footage just bringing it to AE to key out). Do you think there are any advantages in using FCP over Quicktime to simply just get the footage on my machine??

Thanks again for all your help! Really appreciate it!

http://www.christinarule.com

[Rob Grauert]

“Do you think there are any advantages in using FCP over Quicktime to simply just get the footage on my machine??”

I thought you wanted to convert your HDV footage to ProRes for the purpose of keying. I don’t know if Quicktime converts HDV to ProRes during ingest…

Rob Grauert, Jr.
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[Christina Rule]

@ Rob and Dave 🙂

Sorry if I’m not explaining things to well.

I am just trying to figure out the best way to capture footage using the equipment the studio has.

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[Rob Grauert]

If you don’t have an AJA Kona card or breakout box

And if you’re stuck recording HDV when you’re not doing the live key

Then capture your HDV material following that tutorial I linked you to.

Rob Grauert, Jr.
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[Mark Jenner]

I wish final cut pro would make the feature that imovie has of connecting the deck and clicking capture the deck rolls back to the beginning of the tape for you and automatically starts recording the video and stops at the end ideal for those long shoots like stage plays etc where you have two cameras and need to take everything in.
If FCP could organise that it would be great

mark j

[Tom Wolsky]

I guess you’ve added this to Feedback, have you? Not going to happen if you ask here, though to be honest I’d be surprised if any more development work is done at all on any tape based ingest.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Christina Rule]

im trying to follow the tutorial you sent me but now I am having another problem..
I ant seem to get FCP to do a live capture. I know I have to set a none controllable device but cant seem to do that. Everytime I go to the log and capture screen it just says unable to recognize tape.

I’ve gone to the audio video settings and set the device control preset to none controllable device but it still give me that error…

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[Rafael Amador]

Hi Christina,
If you would be downloading from tape, FC would be more convenient, but from camera, use QT Pro.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com