Barbara Ballow
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I have e-mailed the woman who did the capturing and asked her
repeatedly to tell me what she did, but I have gotten no answer.
It may time to withhold her payment until she at least gives me a straight answer. She has cost me at least a day of edit time.
If I find out, I will post it. -
What I don’t understand is how could footage from a tape source be imported, not captured. Unless something went very wrong in the capture process and no one is willing to own up to it. The bins are named by tape number (at least there is that), but each project was called “capture” and so I have been re-organizing.
Its a lot of footage to recapture and slows down our edit schedule by two weeks, so I have decided to back these drives up and hope I don’t have to go back to the original sources. Not ideal, but the time and expense of a redo is hard to justify. Even if done offsite, all the work I am doing now would not translate to the new capture. Can you think of any downsides within FCP (other than being unable to match back to the source tapes) by working with what I have? -
Unfortunately, this material was captured prior to my being hired to edit. It was done at a facility in Spain. The assistant e-mailed me and told me the deck was a Sony HVR/M25E deck, but I have no idea how the system was setup. The material seems to be fine (except for this problem). Also, under capture in the bin each clip says “not yet”. What does that mean? I’ve been in the AVID world for over a year, so I am getting back up to speed
on these issues which are unique to FCP. Thanks for the help. -
Jeremy, if you can find the information I would really appreciate it. I want to make sure the assistant editor (yes they do still exist) who loaded the material initially understands how this happened and why it is a potential problem.
I’d like to be more helpful than “well you screwed up, so someone else has to do this all over again”. Thanks! -
Yes, it is a pain any way I go. I think making BUs of the drives and putting them in an undisclosed location is the way to go, although I still believe a complete do over is optimal (but not realistic). thanks