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Time Code Breaks Causing Big Trouble
Hi
First off I’m an Avid MC user turned Final Cut Suite…..so I dont know much.
I have a whole archive of interviews shot on 1080i HDV. There appears to be a heap of timecode breaks though out a lot of the footage. FC could be just about to finish capturing a whole tape the up comes the error message ‘capture aborted due to break in time code.’ At least AVID gave you the option of keeping the footage captured up to that point.
Because I’ve got 400 hours+ worth of fooage, I really want to be able to click capture and let it do its thing without to much baby sitting. When I set it to ‘start new capture’ on Time Code break [n user preferences] I lose around 6 seconds worth of footage. Does anyone know a trick or two to make such a large capture job run smoothly when time doesnt allow you to sit and watch FC capture a 60 minute interview? There must be a creative solution out there?
I understand I am probably going to have to grin and bare it but is there anyone out there who can think of an ultra efficient, time saving technique on how to deal with such a headache.Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!!
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Either log first and then batch digitize, re-stripe TC, get an Avid (if it takes twice as long on FCP the Avid is paid for on the ingesting job alone), or ingest without TC (next to work on Avid, that would be my option, keep a digital copy, you can afford it at HDV).
Bouke
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User Preferences/General/On Timecode break-set to warn after capture
This only seems to work well if you set an in and out point and the TC isn’t resetting to 0 hour numerous times. If the TC is resetting you could capture without deck control.
Log and Capture window/Capture settings tab/set device control to non-controllable device. Someone will need to watch the clock and stop the capture but this seems to be the most fail proof. You will have some unwanted heads and tails but it sure beats having to recapture because FC didn’t like your TC or in and out points.
Brad
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