[Jaap Verdenius]

Adam,

Is your sequence set to DV?
Then do “File>Export Quicktime Movie…”, set the settings to “Current” and select “make movie self-contained”. That should give you a DV file about 5 GB large.

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

Sophie,

I am not sure if you were capturing logged clips or doing “Capture Now” – capturing without logging.

If you logged clips and did a batch capture or a clip capture, and there is a timecode break inside that log, then FCP wil indeed halt and capture nothing.
So never log over timecode breaks.

If this happened doing Capture Now, perhaps it makes sense to look under User Preferences, General Tab; on the right you find a dropdown menu “On timecode Break”. Is it set to “Make New Clip”?

By the way, did you check in the Finder if indeed no files were written to the Capture Scratch folder? (If they were, you could simply import them).

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

Philippe,

Did you try export via Compressor?

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

Maybe this workaround is useful:

-in the browser, select the 16:9 clip find the column for ‘anamorphic’ and deselect it
-open the 16:9 clip in the viewer
-in the motion tab, set scale to 133 and aspect ratio (under distort) to -33
-select the clip again in the browser and rightmouse ‘export quick time movie’
-reimport the exported clip. Now you have a genuine 4:3 version of your 16:9 clip and you can avoid this level hiccup.

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

Omar,

I cannot figure out how there can be a difference since you wrote that your trailer is OK with the same sequence settings & media, so let me ask one more maybe-too-obvious question: Is the playback setting of your sequence set to High? (in the RT pop-up menu, upper left corner of the timeline window)
You never know…

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

Luke,

What happens when you open your reimported clip in the Viewer and do Print to Video? Do you see both fields there? If it looks OK there, then the dubhouse’s FCP should also see both fields which means you are safe.
NB: Before trying this, make sure that the Record to Tape setting is set to Full Quality (you can find it in System Settings, tab Playback Control).

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

Hi Omar,

Are those titles rendered (blue line in the timeline above those clips) or are they previews (green line)?
If they are previews, render them and they will probably be fine then.

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

Apparently FCP Rescue has moved:

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

I don’t think that an Aja or BM interface will give you better results than upscaling in FCP itself – I would capture through Firewire and drop it into the HD ProRes timeline (if you go to User Preferences, tab Editing, in the lower right corner you can select “Always scale clips to sequence size” and FCP will do this automatically). If you are not doing any chroma keying with the DV stuff then this is probably the easiest way to go.

An Aja/BM interface however will give you the possibility to capture into a ProRes codec and that will avoid some rendering later on.

So I think it is more of matter if you have the money for an Aja/BM, or the time to do it without.

Jaap

[Jaap Verdenius]

Hi Eduardo,

For the HDV ingest I’d use the HDV-Apple ProRes HQ Capture Setting – It will convert your HDV to ProRes after capture and you will avoid GOP issues. You can do it with Firewire.
If you work with AE on a Mac you can render to a ProRes Quicktime.
You can drop all that into a ProRes timeline.

Of course DV and HDV have different resolutions – you have to make a choice which resolution will be the base for your timeline (and to which resolution you will render your AE work).

Jaap