Arnie Schlissel
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Are you actually logging the footage? Or are you trying to use “Capture Now”? It sounds like you’re trying to do the latter. If you’re dealing with timecoded material, you should always, always, always log your tapes before you capture! If you want to capture whole tape rolls, just log a single in at the head of the tape & an out at the tail of the tape. The few minutes that will take you can save you hours of headaches later. BTW, I regularly do this to capture tapes up to 3 hours long. If the TC on the tape is clean, it will work quite well.
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[Dean Sensui] “An audio engineer friend had, as the first step on his diagnostic list: Is it plugged in?”
And I bet his 2nd question was, “Is it turned on?” Just those 2 questions will solve something like 60-80% of all tech support issues!
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And don’t expect to get the interview subject to look too good. At best you’ll wind up with kind of flat looking skintones.
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Sounds like Your timeline is playing an old render file. Simply force it to re-render by dragging the opacity bar down & up.
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Not necessarily. Run a test using the method DRW describes below to a short segment of your timeline. Output as you were planning & check the quality. It may be ‘good enough’, in which case, you’re ‘golden’.
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A similar thing happened to me last week with a project that I was onlining. I simply ignored the display that showed me that the project would be the same size before & after because I had more than enough space on the RAID that I was capturing to. It turns out that MM was wrong about the estimated size, anyway.
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I favor the Hitachi Deskstars & Seagate Barracudas. I’ve often gotten good deals from zipzoomfly.com.
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What version of FCP? The scaling in v5 is soooo much better than previous versions, that I’d just do it in FCP. If you’ve got a previous version, then you might be better off doing this in AE or Combustion.
Arnie
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