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VHS Tape Capture and Render
My apologies if this has been posted somewhere before – I did find a few posts but none really answered the question I have ready to post 🙂
I am doing a project in which we are converting VHS tapes to digital format (DVD in the end) and I am finding while the capture works just fine using the non controllable device capture setting – once I place this captured footage into the timeline – fcp, even though no red line appears above the footage, needs to render it and, it takes many hours.
thoughts?
My audio/video settings are set as DV-NTSC and i set the non controllable setting at the log and capture window.
eventually we are going with a VHS to DVD converter player deal – but for the footage I have already captured, I am attempting a successful DVD burn.
thanks!
Enero (Jennifer) -
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I’d guess that the timeline settings aren’t the same as the footage. If you create a new sequence and edit a clip onto it you will probably get a message saying “Attention – This clip does not match this sequence’s settings… Change sequence settings to match the clip settings?” – click on Yes. You may well find that it works ok then…
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no message when I drop into the timeline – sequence settings are the same as the capture settings, aside from the fact that it capture settings it is a non controllable device…
Keeping in mind the footage/clip does not indicate it needs render (red line above it) – only that when I go to “render full” before exporting – it does need and takes forever to do so…and even if I just “render” it still takes at least an hour. ?
thx!
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Render full is your issue. If it plays back fine without render then you can just go File>Export>Quicktime Movie. You can take this file straight into iMovie (which will take forever) or you can do it proper and create an m2v and ac3 file to bring into DVDSPro.
Shoot sh*t, Edit sh*t
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