[John Pale]

Just search for the term “Merge Clips” in your FCP help.

This is entirely what that function is for. I could describe it here, but I would basically be re-typing the manual.

[John Pale]

For regular run-of-the mill Uncompressed 8 and 10 bit (SD and HD), they all use the Apple codecs.

The original Kona card, many years back, actually used a codec written by Blackmagic.
Then Apple came up with RTxtreme (and Blackmagic got into the hardware business with the Decklink). AJA, Blackmagic, and Aurora eventually switched to using the Apple codecs to allow RTxtreme support on their cards.

As Sean stated, there are also legacy codecs and 4:4:4 codecs that are not Apple supplied.

[John Pale]

[rafalaos] “Capturing is not a hard job for your computer, basically is just to write”

Not exactly true. Some codecs are very processor intensive….just ask anyone who has tried to capture ProRes on a G5.

[John Pale]

[reneegade] “–with the anamorphic sequence (anamorphic box is checked) the footage looks proper on my computer but on my NTSC monitor looks vertically stretched…. “

You need an external monitor that has a 16:9 setting.

[John Pale]

[Billy Johnson] “I never noticed before but the lower thirds which were .mov’s had the same name as the master clips(the interviewee’s name), but were in a different folder so I never had issues until MM tried to create new clips. “

Yeah. MM puts everything in one folder called “Media”….the duplicate file name would then become a problem, whereas before you had them separated and it worked fine. I wish FCP were smart enough to deal with the situation by auto-renaming or something (perhaps a preference….”resolve filename conflicts by: A-ask me, B-automatically, C-never”)

[John Pale]

[JeremyG] ” have never seen an error code using the Media Manager, so this is a bit of new territory for me. John, have you seen this before? “

Yes. Not sure what number is it was. I resolved it by re-naming the media file to something else.

[JeremyG] “the next idea is flippant and suggestive. Hard drives are cheap. 120 Gig hardrives are really cheap. Get yourself a > 100Gig bare SATA drive, stick it in a spare hard drive slot in the G5 and back up the whole 85 Gigs along with the project and important files.”

Agreed.

[John Pale]

Usually problems involve the file or clip name.

Try changing the name. If you have many clips derived from the same media file, FCP appends a number to the clip name for each one…but if the clip name is long, sometimes it gets truncated and the number gets “cut off” and you end up with naming issues.

[John Pale]

No.

Send the tape to a dub house and get it converted.

I would recommend the Nattress standards conversion plug in if you were doing SD, but you also need to upconvert to 1080i. Best to get it done with the proper hardware.

[John Pale]

[John Pale]

You need to redigitize.
Avid is not a Quicktime based editing system, like FCP.