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Recapture HDV tapes formerly logged from “card” clips
I’m stuck at the moment with a project right now with something that can probably be solved easily, but can’t find in FCP7…
So there’s material filmed on a Sony HVR-Z7 camera on both a HDV tape and on memory cards simultaneously with the CF Memory Recording Unit that was attached to the camera and running along the tape. The clips from the card were then loaded into FCP7 via the Log and Transfer window. All these clips resided on a harddrive array that crashed, so we’ve last all the original (card) clips generated by the camera. But we still have all material (luckily) on the HDV tapes. The most logical thing would be to do a recapture off the tapes, right?
But now, the question is: how can I recapture this material again from the TAPE (as all the cards were reused by now)? Right-clicking in FCP on a clip and saying “Batch capture” takes me to the Log and Transfer window, and not to the Log and Capture window instead.
How can I trick FCP into thinking this clip came from a tape instead of a card?!?!?
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Perhaps log a clip from a corresponding tape. Then, for a corresponding clip that was formerly captured from a card, right click on the reel and change it to the newly logged tape reel. Now it should think it came from a tape. Maybe. I can’t try it right now. Worth a shot. If it works, just log a bunch of phony clips with the tape reels. You can then select groups of clips in the bins and change their reels all at once.
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Didn’t do the trick 🙁
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Yeah, I got around to trying it.
Perhaps just capture the entire tapes and reconnect the master clips to the QTs of the tapes. As long as it has the right time code, should work. “should”
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I’m in this exact same situation. It would be ideal to modify (á la Avid) some aspect of the master clip and re-capture (from tape) so that an edited sequence would come back online. When I’ve digitized from the HVR-M25 HDV deck a new clip with the same media start and end timecodes, then try to reconnect media to the new QT file, I get the standard FCP warning about tracks or clip length. It allows the reconnect but the footage at the proper timecode is not the right content, and slipping the source clip in the sequence is not turning out to be a quick remedy.
Otherwise I’m having to create, digitize and edit in all new master clips based on timecodes that aren’t accurate.
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Okay, after some free time this morning I’ve gotten a comfortable workflow going that will allow for batch capture from tape of Log & Transferred clips from the Sony Z7U compact flash/HDV combo.
Thanks to Andy Mees’ post here on the cow I’ve got the batch list process working as follows:Make a new bin and drag offline L&T clips here (from a sequence or their original bin).
Select all and Export a Batch List.
Leave the offline L&T clips in the bin, right-click and import the Batch List into the same bin.
– I found it helpful to show the Creator column – old L&T clips have QuickTime Player, newly batch imported clips have none.
Select the newly imported clips and Control-C to Batch Capture (from Tape!)
Select the offline L&T clips and Reconnect Media to the freshly digitized QTs.So far it seems to do the trick.
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