Need help with video capture keyboard shortcuts

[Rick Sebeck]

You could remap your keyboard to the media 100 style. And as far as capturing shortcuts… F2 “logs clip” then you can do a batch capture. I didn’t fully appreciate the Log and Capture window, until the first time I had to log a feature film. Believe it or not, it is AWESOME. Mark in, Mark out, name roll, name scene, name take.. press F2. It then sets the outpoint to the next inpoint, and sequences the take number.

I’ll admit it can be clumsy if your not logging in the traditional film setting.

[Mediacentral]

Thanks for responding, Rick. Unfortunately,the clips I need to capture are all cover/b-roll stuff which will have multiple takes of pushes/pulls/pans/tilts on different subjects, which means I will have to pretty much go through each tape in real time to pick the best ones. Logging them all like that (hundreds of clips) and then going back to batch capture would likely take twice as long as just suffering through the mouse clicking. I just find it strange that they have a keystroke for everything except capture.

[Rick Sebeck]

You could always do the “capture first, log later” approach. If you have the drive space, capture the entire clip, then open the clip in the viewer and add markers at each take. Then, from the browser select the markers and drag them into a new bin. FCP will turn them into sub clips. Rename them how you’d like, and your good to go.