Recapture Batch Issues

[Nick Meyers]

i would have thought what you;re doing would work.

it used to work in earlier versions (BTW, you didn’t tell us what version you are on)

do this instead:

make any captured files offline

in FCP5:
select all clips,
control click,
choose “clip settings”
the clip settings window opens, and you chose audio & video, and your audio format – the 2 rings icon sets stereo (rings linked) or Ch1+Ch2 (rings un-linked)

in FCP less than 5:
select the clips,
find the “tracks” column in the browser,
control click in there, and choose 1V, 2A
fond the “audio” column
control click, and choose Stereo or Ch1+Ch2

then capture away.

cheers,
nick

[Frank Nolan]

1) Have you checked the tapes for audio?
2) What Format are the tapes?
3) How are you capturing the tapes? i.e. firewire, capture card, aja io etc?
4) When you go to the audio format select box are the little buttons beside each track choice green or greyed out? i.e. the mute buttons.
Try and give as much info about your set up as possible.

>Anybody know what I’m doing wrong?
You could have your tongue in the wrong place-:)

[Waddy Padilla]

I’m using FCP 4.5. Capturing miniDV from my Panasonic DVX-100a using firewire. The capture is working fine. There is audio on the tape, and when I captured just one clip independently, it worked fine.

When I click on any of these clips in the browser and select Item Properties from the edit menus, the entire audio column is grey and furthermore, the audio information at the bottom, (format and rate) are blank.

I haven’t found the “tracks” column in the browser as the first respondant recommended.

All the clips I’m trying to capture are online. I want to overwrite them with clips that have both audio and video. I believe they were all captured without audio the first time around.

Waddy World Productions

[Nick Meyers]

“I haven’t found the “tracks” column in the browser”

well keep looking!

if you cant find it, maybe it’s not showing.
control click on the head of any column,
there will be a list of un-shown columns,
find “tracks” and show it.

nick

[Frank Nolan]

Try making your clips offline.

[Waddy Padilla]

Finally found the “tracks” column. I needed my browser to be in “list” view, not as icons.

Still hasn’t remedied my problem though. When I control click in the video column, it says, “no shortcuts.” In the audio column, I get nothing when I control click. I’ve already started just going back and recapturing every clip again with audio this time. It seems there should have been a much simpler way to do this.

Thanks for all the help anyway.

Waddy World Productions

[Nick Meyers]

you have to take the clips offline first.

then you can change the “Tracks” and “Audio” settings.

nick

[Waddy Padilla]

I’m so close to figuring this out. Truth is, I’d be done now if I had just started to re-log and capture. Now it’s a matter of principal to learn this thing.

Nevertheless, I made the clips off line (FCP Manual Vol2. Ch. 7) and control clicked on the video and audio settings and changed them as you recommended. When I capture the clips, they revert to the old settings, “V1” and no audio.

Waddy World Productions

[Nick Meyers]

really?
i don’t know what’s going on there.
that doesn’t happen for me.

when you go to re-capture, do you have the “Use Logged Clips Settings” box ticked?
you should

other time-saving techniques for re-logging:

drag the logged clip into the Log & Capture window.
all relevant info goes there,
change the Clip settings, and re-log.

export a batch list,
change the tracks and audio columns in a spread-sheet app, like Excel.
re-import.

hope something works for you.
maybe trash your prefs??
read this if you think trashing prefs will help..
https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_trash_prefs5.html

good luck,
nick