time code breaks on capture

[Shane Ross]

Why are you capturing? You need to be IMPORTING. Log and TRANSFER…this is how you import P2.

I have a tutorial..

P2 Workflow with FCP 6

Shane

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[Rick Morris]

I capture when I don’t want all the extra video. I could have a clip that is 3 or 4 minutes long and I only want 2 minutes of it and that saves storage and also shortens the editing time by limiting how much I need to screen when I create my clips or sub-clips. In SD this wasn’t a problem but the HD files are so large. I shoot a lot of underwater and that means equipment and more hard drives means more equipment and I already have equipment issues when traveling to locations. This also raises the possibility that there may be something wrong with my camera, or the cards, if I am losing frames all the time.. RM

[Shane Ross]

I still don’t know why you capture instead of import. That isn’t the way to import the footage off the cards. The fact that it worked with SD is interesting.

The Long and Transfer window allows you to set IN and OUT points and import only the portions of clips that you want.

Shane

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[Rick Morris]

I am using FCP 5 not 6 and as I explained earlier, I don’t always want the whole clip so I capture instead so I can set in and out points for the media. I watched the tutorial for importing in FC 6 and saw that you had a section on restoring the media if you have a hard drive failure and lose your media which happened to me. Does this work without having the card with the original footage? If so can I do it in FC 5 as well because I lost a lot of irreplaceable shots.