[Brett Blake]

Thank you all for your help. I’ve tried Pluraleyes with little to no success, and Sync-And-Link requires matching TC, so that won’t work.

I’m having some success with a very round-about method, but it’s limited and sometimes causing FCP to act pretty wonky for reasons I can’t figure out.

For the cuts that have already been edited, this is what I’m doing:

– Syncing up the audio and video manually in a sequence (very easy to do with the clapboard)
– Getting rid of the camera audio and linking the video with the clean audio
– Exporting the new video and audio as a QT with the same file name
– Reconnecting the original edited clip to the new media

Sometimes, this works perfectly. The multclips reconnect, and anywhere in any sequence that media from either the video or audio tracks is used, the media reconnects and everything is peachy.

Other times, though, the QT that is exported is corrupted in some way. I can reconnect the original media to the new file, but only one of the tracks of audio reconnects, while the other goes offline. If I open the file in QT, it shows dual mono tracks, and I can clearly hear both.

Also, I get a “General Error” message before the export happens sometimes, and sometimes I don’t. I can’t determine what’s causing it, but when I don’t get it, everything seems to work fine. I’ve done a test and I sometimes get it re-exporting a clip that worked fine before.

Hmmmmm….

[Brett Blake]

Hahaha. Thanks for the words of encouragement, Mark.

That was my fear, but I just prayed that I was wrong.

[Brett Blake]

Hey Paul-

When I’ve worked with footage from HDCAM, I mostly capture using normal ProRes to save space. Occasionally, I’ll use ProRes HQ if it’s absolutely essential that no quality is lost, but I haven’t noticed any problems with normal ProRes.

Hope this helps!

[Brett Blake]

Yeah, I have to actually import the clips in with the correct timecodes, but thanks for your help. It was worth a shot!

[Brett Blake]

Thanks Tony. Is there a “log clip” option for Log and Transfer? I’m not seeing it.

The method you described is exactly how I used to do this when I was capturing from tape, but I don’t think it works with cards.

[Brett Blake]

Thanks so much for your help, Dave! I’ll give that a try.

[Brett Blake]

Brilliant!

Thanks for your response, Noah. I guess I’m trying to figure out which of the two is the problem by hearing about other people’s experiences. Also, I’m curious if people have a specific brand of DVD they like using for this sort of thing.

[Brett Blake]

Hi John-

Should have included this in the original post. I’m using a DVCAM Deck with a FireWire 400 connection.

Thanks!