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MC 3.5 capture issue
I’m running MC 3.5 and trying to capture footage filmed in HDV. When capturing, each time the cameraman hit record, the capture will stop and create a new clip. I don’t want this. I have gone into my settings and selected “Capture across time code breaks. I have also gone into DV&HDV Options setting and selected, then unselected “DV & HDV Scene Extraction” It doesn’t seem to matter what I do. It always stops capturing and creates a new clip every time.
I’m sure it has to be a simple setting issue, but so far none of the settings have seemed to make a difference and this isn’t touched on in the manual.
I’m using a Mac pro quad core, 7Gb memory, OSX 10.5.6, GeForce 7300GT
HDV Deck is a Sony HVR-M15U.
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As far as I know, Avid will always stop at a timecode break. What ‘Capture across timecode breaks’ does is tell Avid to automatically continue capturing the footage after the break as a new clip, as opposed to stopping digitizing completely. The idea is that you can start an unattended digitize of a whole tape, go away and come back and its all done, 1 clip per unbroken stretch of timecode. If the option is unselected, you’ll come back and only there will only be one clip digitized.
I think the only way to achieve what you want – perhaps someone else can correct me – is to turn OFF the TC button in the track selector panel at the top of the digitize window. The digitized footage will not have the tc off tape; instead it will have tc that Avid automatically added, usually time of day. But I’m pretty sure it will ignore any tc breaks and load the whole tape. I’m not sure about control-track breaks; they’ll probably still abort a digitize.
The tc issue may not be a problem for you, since it could be problematic for a clip to have discontinuous timecode anyway.
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You could also copy the original camera tape with new, continuous timecode.
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yeah…that would be what I would suggest…
although it could be a control track issue. The tape has a gap in time code and track…which the deck reads as either the end of the tape or a stopping point…it then communicates that to your capture device…in this case avid…so then avid with a fairly unintelligent capture application…stops.
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If I capture everything with the time code switched off–I’ll be screwed if I ever have to recapture footage again, right?
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I just posted this on the Avid board. Maybe some of you could add your thoughts:
….a couple days ago one of my posts to this thread included:
“The footage I am struggling with now was shot on a Sony V1U. The previous HDV project, the one finished on AXP was shot on a CanonXHA1. Are there any settings within those cameras that would cause one to work better that the other?”
Just on a whim I grabbed that footage from the previous project–the one I edited in AXP and was shot on the XHA1. I went into the ‘log” function on my MC capture tool and logged about 7 random clips for a total of about three minutes of footage. I set the capture template for Sony HVR-M10U and a custom preroll of 8 seconds.
I sat back and watched the MC effortlessly batch capture all 7 clips with stunning accuracy and minimal effort.
The only variable from my previously listed issues was the camera in use. As far as I can tell both tapes were shot basically the same, HDV 1080i, 60i. Even the tape stock is identical.
Just to be sure this wasn’t some bizarre Twilight Zone fluke, i deleted the media, closed out MC, shut down my MacPro, waited, powered all back up, started Avid and gave the batch digitize command once again. All seven clips again captured without the slightest bit of hesitation.
It would seem my problems surround footage shot with a V1U–or at least THIS V1U.
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