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Problem with timecodes of re-captured footage
Hi all,
I’m hoping someone will be able to help me here? My problem is this:
During a previous project I have worked on, I created a FCP project that used footage captured from 4 DV tapes totaling over 3 hours. I then went through these clips and made subclips of every single shot that was taken.
I have now been asked to undertake a new project that I need to re-use the same footage for, however the original 4 masterclips have been deleted. I do luckily still have the original DV tapes.
I have tried re-capturing the footage using the exact same settings, reel numbers and file names however when I try to reconnect the new captured clips, FCP informs me that the media start and end points do not match.
I have tried to change the timecode within the modify-timecode menu, but this was only successful in the one clip that was captured with the exact same duration as the orginal clip it was trying to replace. Unfortunately the other 3 clips have captured slightly differently and as a result have longer durations that their originals.
When I use modify-timecode on these clips, I can get the media start point to match up, but due to the different duration value the media end point is incorrect.
Is there a way to alter both the media start and media end points manually?
If I can’t find a way to reconnect the footage I have on the DV tapes to the existing FCP project, then I will have to start the again from scratch. Considering it took me weeks and weeks to log every shot the first time around, obviously I don’t really want to do this.
Can anyone help me please?
Adam.
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3 Replies
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Erm… thanks, but that was double dutch to me.
Just to clarify, the original clips were captured using the same tapes and the same camera as the new clips I am trying to replace them with. The new clips were captured using the same settings (DV-PAL).
Each tape has been captured to a different clip – 4 tapes = 4 clips. 1 of the clips reconnects successfully after adjusting the media start point with the modify timecode setting. The other new clips when captured have turned out to be longer in length that the old ones. However the actual footage stills plays at the same speed, there is just 4 secs or so of extra ‘nothing’ on the end.
The original clips were stored on an external HD that was not backed up and has subsequently been wiped clean.
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You can’t just recapture a tape from scratch and then hope to reconnect footage from a project to it. The original clips have different start and stop times. Say you captured the original clip from 1:00:06:12 to 1:58:54:10. Then you delete that master clip file. Then you capture the tape again, only this time you start at 1:00:05:02 to 1:58:54:03. FCP cannot reconnect to that. The timecodes are different. Even though your footage falls WITHIN the limits of that clip. FCP needs EXACT reel, timecode start and timecode end. EXACT.
BUT…you can always give FCP Reconnect a try. I used this and it was great!
https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=41
It will reconnect the existing clips to the newly captured file…
Shane
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I’m guessing that you “crash” captured these tapes using Capture Now. I’m also guessing that you may have captured across timecode breaks, meaning your timecode is now useless past the 1st break and will have to be matched by eye.
Arnie
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