[Bob Pierce]

I Have a DSR 45 also. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t do edit to tape. It surprised me also, to find out that it really has limited usefulness as a mastering deck. When I do master to it, I just use print to tape and maually hit record on the deck – no timecode sync. If you read the manual, I think you’ll see that I’m correct.
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Thanks, guys (how come there are never any gals in here?).
I’ll check those out. I have read though that Walter Biscardi had terrible problems with Caldigit so I was kinda avoiding them, but maybe that was an anomoly.
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Thanks for the response. I’ll talk to OWC. Thing is, I’d really need to ditch all of the 512mg sticks – Apple says to get most out of FCP you need to use matching sticks all around.
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Thanks Guys,
I should have mentioned that it played fine on my computer – haven’t tried it on a set top player yet (have become lazy and/or confident). Of course the client assures me that all other dvds play just dandy on his new HP laptop.
Thanks again for any suggestions…
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

I can make the clips independent, make them offline, then open each one in the viewer, create a subclip, then drop the newly created subclip into the sequence replacing the original, then recapture. This is still only slightly more tedious than simply re capturing the stuff manually, but it does work.
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Yes, and it’s driving me a little crazy! If I make the clips I want to capture independent, then make them offline, then have media manager create a new project referencing the original media ( why the heck would I want to copy all the media?!) It functions just the same as before – wanting to capture all the media associated with the clip. I’m still convinced that there’s a way to do this!
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Deleting the Thumbnail and Waveform caches did the trick! Thanks Guys!
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Thanks, Ian. Yes, I could do that but FCP wants to re capture the entire media rather than just the in and out points of that particular clip. I trying to avoid recapturing the whole tape.
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Hmm…

Thanks for bearing with me guys, but I don’t think I’m quite there yet. What I’d like to do is define these new clips from clips in the timeline – in other words, if I have to create new clips in a bin, that still means I’m back to manually replacing clips in the timeline one at a time with the new clips.

I suppose with Media Manager I could create a new sequence, delete the “answer” clips leaving just the “question” clips, then make them offline (deleting the new media that media manager just created), recapture and then paste back into the original sequence.

I’ve been doing nonlinear editing for quite a few years now and it seems like this kind of thing has always been easy to do – just select a clip, recapture it, done. FCP is brilliantly designed to avoid mixing up clip/media relationships but here it is hindering what should be a simple procedure. I’ve tried making the clips offline, making subclips, making them “independent”, everything I can think of and it still wants to capture the entire media.
Thanks again for your patience..
Bob

[Bob Pierce]

Nick – I’ve re-read your response and I think I understand what you’re saying now – if it’s just a few clips, I can just manually recreate them by typing the in and out times with the log and capture function. Pretty labor intensive for what I’m doing, unfortunately.
Bob