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What would you do in this situation…
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No one has mentioned the DV Start/Stop Detect feature in FCP. I did an article on it in Event DV magazine some months ago (eventdv.net, it is archived under “Cut Lines” if you do a search). With the method I explain in that article, you get both your whole tape capture, and you get it chopped up into seperate clips (not sub-clips) that you can then lable and log as you want. Very fast, very efficient, I’d suggest looking into it.
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This only works with DV. Most of us aren’t using DV as much anymore. That’s why its becoming a pain on figuring how to do this.
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I use it on DVCPRO-HD footage all the time. I’ve used it with HDV footage. That’s all digital video, with the same metadata that the fuction uses. It does in fact work with any digital video format I’ve used it for so far.
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> There is no time nor budget to have tapes logged properly.< Then there is neither time nor budget to finish the project efficiently. Your producer is nuts. She is relying on your commitment to compensate for her bad production practices. Bail out while there's still time and you still have a life. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Sounds good BUT you can only do this if you use your firewire connection and capture thru firewire.
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> There is no time nor budget to have tapes logged properly.< Then there is neither time nor budget to finish the project efficiently. Your producer is nuts. She is relying on your commitment to compensate for her bad production practices. Bail out while there's still time and you still have a life. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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>Sounds good BUT you can only do this if you use your firewire connection and capture thru firewire.< No, not the capture setting, I'm talking about the function in the Mark menu. You are thinking about the function in the Capture presets that has nothing to do with what I'm talking about, but is often mistaken for doing the same thing, though it doesn't. What I'm talking about looks not at SMPTE TC, but Time-Of-Day TC, to make breaks. Read this article to the end before we go further: https://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=11431
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That is an awesome feature, I read your article and bam! It worked, thanks for the heads up.
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[bbalser] “No, not the capture setting, I’m talking about the function in the Mark menu. You are thinking about the function in the Capture presets that has nothing to do with what I’m talking about, but is often mistaken for doing the same thing, though it doesn’t. What I’m talking about looks not at SMPTE TC, but Time-Of-Day TC, to make breaks.”
This ONLY works if you are capturing in the native codec to the machine using firewire. You cannot take an HDV tape and capture it to DVCProHD and use the DV Start/Stop Detect feature. I’ve tried it. It works fine IF I’m caputring to HDV thru firewire. DV Start/Stop Detect for DV/HDV video.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
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