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Why can’t I capture the whole tape instead of clips
I’m capturing HDV 720p footage from a JVC H110 camera. I’ve un-checked the “make new clip on start and stop” in the log and capture menu. And I’ve chosen “On timecode break warn after capture” in the User Preferences.
If I log the entire tape to be captured as one single clip I get an error message on capture that says there’s a problem in the stream. If I use capture now it will capture the entire tape, but it breaks it up into several clips.
My goal is to capture the entire tape as one clip. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
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I have only ever been able to capture this format as separate clips. It will not capture whole tapes as a single item, unless it’s been shot like that.
All the best,
Tom
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Your only other option is to set your vtr option as a non-controllable device, hit play on your deck/cam, and then hit capture now. It will capture the whole tape – the only problem is that it will problem lose timecode sync at some point. But if you’re okay with that – that is an option.
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Thanks for the great idea!
Danny -
Thanks Tom! I guess I’ll live with it 🙂
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also if the timecode is continous on the tape, you can add it after in the modify menu/timecode. Pick a cut on the tape so you know the exact timecode at that point and type it in, viola, one long clip with timecode
nick
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Does anyone have a real solution?
I’m trying to capture extended clips in order to make full use of the multi-clip editing feature in FCP.
It’s bad enough getting “timecode break” messages and having to match frame edits from a single cam, but when I’m trying to cut long shows using 2 or more synced cams; these timecode breaks are a disaster.
I’m trying to capture 1080i HDV from a Sony HVR-M25u feed deck. I’m ingesting this down an HDMI cable thru a Matrox MX02 box.
The drive is a 1TB G-Raid
The MAC is a 2 x3 GHz quad core with 4 gig of ram and we’re running the Snow Leopard OS
I thought initally this issue was an HDV capture issue and/or a Matrox throughput issue, but I and my colleagues are having the same problems capturing SD simple 720×486 DVcam down a simple firewire connection.
I’ve even tried rs 422 control taking in component video from a UVW1800 Betacam Sp deck…….still getting timecode breaks.
Anyone having any luck solving this or is this just an FCP bug that we need to wait for Apple to address?
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