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Quicktime Pro Capture to FCP Import???
Hi,
I’ve captured video clips from a Digital Hi8 camcorder playing an Analog 8mm tape that I recorded back in the early 90’s.
This camcorder has firewire and able to play Analog 8mm tapes.My problem is that FCP won’t capture the clips the Log & Capture window but it’s still viewable for playback in the window.
It says it’s waiting for the timecode when I do a “Capture Now” selection since the tape has no timecode.
This should technically work but doesn’t.I then used Quicktime Pro to capture the tapes and it works. However, when I try to import the clips into FCP, it says the files are unrecognizable.
I even tried to import the clips by dragging them into FCP and it says that FCP does not support the frame rate? The clips are 29.97fps.I am stuck. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I’m in the process of transferring the 8mm tapes to MiniDV via firewire.
Is there a loss in quality? -
3 Replies
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Sounds like the timecode is screwed up on the original tape.
dubbing to miniDV is a good idea. you will not lose any quality over having the Digital8 camcorder doing the analog to digital conversion.
You could also try using “Capture Now” and setting FCP to Non-Controllable Device, which will ignore timecode….but I like doing the DV dub better, because you will be able to recapture in the future, if necessary.
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make sure you didn’t capture with the preset quicktime at h264
if you did try exporting the file back out of quicktime as a quicktime file but change the codecs…. -
There isn’t any tc on an 8mm tape, so using capture now with non controllable device set would be the way to go.
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