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What’s up with Abort capture on dropped frames? It’s not doing what the doc says it should.
Hi Folks
The “Abort capture on dropped frames” checkbox in the User Preferences
dialog is documented thusly:Abort Capture: If you choose this option, Final Cut Pro stops capture
immediately
after a break is detected. All media captured before the timecode
break has frame-
accurate timecode and is preserved. The resulting media file is saved and its
representative clip is placed in the Browser.Note that “All media captured BEFORE the timecode break … is preserved.”
Well, in both FCP 5.0 and 5.0.4 when FCP stops the capture due to a
timecode break, NONE of the media from that capture is on the drive.
Not in Capture Scratch, not in the Trash. And there’s no clip added to
the logging bin.So what’s up? How long has this been goin’ on? Please don’t tell me
that the documentation is wrong, for if it doesn’t preserve the media
before the TC break, then, as far as I can tell, there’s no way to
capture media on a “not fast enough” system other than to turn off the
“Abort capture on dropped frames” checkbox. Which is not something I’d
want to advise people to do.—
Joe Shapiro
Freelance FCP Editor (narrative features and shorts)
Seattle WA
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5 Replies
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Honestly, I can’t remember that ever working like that. Might be a misprint in the manual? I’m pretty sure FCP has always not captured a clip if a TC break was found.
One thing that DOES work is to set that to “Make New Clip” at a TC break. That stops the capture, preserves what’s already been captured, and restarts a new capture at the TC break.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
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I second Walter’s answer. I’ve been using FCP since 3.0 and I have never seen that feature work as specified in the help file and in the manual. BUT Walter’s suggestion always works, but it does have some difficulty when using it with the Sony HDV M10U deck. I’ll get timecode break while in the middle of a continuous clip.
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Wayne Carey
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I’ve been batch capturing large chunks of Sony HDV footage for a while no problems until just recently – (Maybe after downloading the latest FCP software update!?!?!)
Now I can’t capture one continous HDV clip without is stopping with an error message. I’ve tried adjusting all the settings in user preferences but without any luck. The only way I can get FCP to digitise is by letting it create a new clip everytime a timecode break (HDV inherent) is found.
What has changed??????
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Have you recently trashed your preferences? If you have or have not, you need to look in your User Preferences and look to see if “On timecode break:” is set to Make New Clip. Give that a shot. I don’t seem to be having this problem. But if you still are, I would say trash your preferences and repair your permissions and see what happens after that.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions -
Just ran into this situation with a camera settings on time code set to free run. I never shoot that way, but make sure your FCP settings are set for. “Make New Clip” at a TC break” to avoid this anoying prolbem.
Steve
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