Debe
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https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88338
This link seems to usually be the answer to problems similar to yours.
debe
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See the little dark gray line in the center of the track in the timeline? Above the line the arrow points in one direction, below the line it points in another.
Play with that, you’ll figure out pretty fast which is which.
Much easier than picking the mode first!
debe
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It’s called Nesting in FCP. In the Sequence Menu you should see an option for “Nest Items”. That will collapse any clips you have selected into a nest which will allow you to make global changes to the all clips with the same commands.
Once you have your nest, to load the nest into the Viewer to edit it, you need to CTRL-click it to load the nest. Double clicking the nest in the timeline will open up the nest, allowing you to edit the clips within the nest individually. It’s a little frustrating at first, but you’ll get the hang of it soon.
Post back with more questions. Nesting opens up a whole new world, and a whole bunch of changes in how you can work that can be confusing.
debe
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It’s a limitation of firewire.
To be completely frame accurate, you need to use a deck that can be controlled by a machine language known as RS-422.
AFAIK, you can’t get that via firewire.
debe
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I’ve been known to use firewire drives on the road, too. I’ve never had a problem, either. (knock on wood)
However, with a project this big, with this much media, and with what the poor guy has already gone through, it seems to me to make more sense to avoid the possibility of the same thing happening again. He’s already been through it once.
Yes, it will cost a little bit more, but the piece of mind will be well worth it, in my humble opinion.
debe
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The biggest piece of advice I could give here is don’t use firewire drives for the recapture.
The problem your have faced is one of the reasons Apple doesn’t approve of the use of FW drives for media storage. They are not reliable enough.
If you use a tower, put in an extra SATA drive inside. They go up to 500 GB now. Otherwise, add a SATA card and external SATA storage. To RAID or not to RAID depends on whether you’re using uncompressed SD or HD. For DV and HDV, RAIDing drives is overkill.
I don’t envy you the task, but at least you get the chance to start over, for what it’s worth! Much of the time when things like this happen, the editor just has to limp along and doesn’t get the chance to really get it right!
debe
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I wouldn’t press charges, Zander, but my husband might feel the need to bop ya in the nose!
Luckily, he rarely, if ever, falls victim to his urges to bop people in the nose!
debe
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Try this on a copy of your timeline, as it usually takes a couple tries to get the hang of it.
First, you have to set the transition you want applied to all your clips to be your default transition.
Then, select the clips you want via your favorite selection method. Grab that section of clips and drag it to the Canvas and hover over the Canvas window. Options will pop up, Insert, Overwrite, etc. Drop the whole shebang over “Overwrite with Transition”.
Make sure you have your in point set for the where the first clip starts. Actually, you may not need an in point at all. I haven’t done it in awhile, and I can’t remember for sure. Something to try…just make sure you don’t have an in point set somewhere ELSE in your timeline, that for sure will mess things up!
Try it a few times, it should start to make sense!
Good luck
debe
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I’ve asked about this of a few other “offline colleagues”.
One wonders if the tape is “all the same”, perhaps it’s the location on the giant roll of tape before it’s cut? Perhaps the outside of the roll is for miniDV, and the inside of the roll is for DVCam. Or perhaps miniDV doesn’t have to pass quite as strict QC as DVcam, or something. He’s also had negative experiences using miniDV in place of DVCam in a pinch.
I remember vividly a bad batch of BetaSP when I was a staffer. The entire case had a crease. It was sent back to Sony and an investigation resulted in finding out that batch was the “end cut”, or the last bit of the roll used. It’s more likely to get creased during production. According to the Sony rep, it’s not supposed to make it into the “high end chain”, but somehow, it had passed through several vendors and ended up in our stock.
It certainly could be that it was one rogue bad tape.
Who knows.
debe
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Now that you’ve shaken my memory up on that whole fiasco….
I took the answer I was given and that was enough for me at the time. So then, what are the other options that could explain what happened?
The DVCam stock was Sony, the miniDV was also Sony. Perhaps the DVCam tape left something behind that the miniDV didn’t like, and the miniDV essentially “cleaned off” the heads while recording? The dropouts happened randomly, but it was the length of the remainder of the shoot. The environmental conditions did not change, the camera wasn’t powered down. There were no other differences I could account for except for the change in tape stock.
According to the client, who was so mortified he took the camera and DVCam stock home and shot a bunch of footage to make sure it wasn’t the camera, the very next DVCam tape he put in the thing exhibited none of the errors.
Any ideas?
debe