Lee Mceachern
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Hey Wayne,
If you’re anything close to my age…. it ain’t the fans that are causing your hearing loss!
Lee
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I’m a tad slow a lot of times…
I would like to capture full tapes that are recorded in time of day timecode. I don’t want to have to sit and monitor the process; I want FCP to start and stop recording on the timecodes I assign as in and out points. If FCP will do that, I’ve been too slow to figure out how. I have been able to make the recordings only by manual start and stop keystrokes, which require me to waste my time monitoring the capture process.
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Thanks for the thoughts and advice. But, honestly, these are workarounds. I want a process; not a workaround. And I don’t want FCP to cut up my file into shots; that’s actually a time waster for me. (Your mileage may vary.) I’m pleased that the workarounds here have added to my store of FCP knowledge but I think this is an issue that Apple should address as an FCP feature: capture a full tape in time-of-day timecode automatically, with the timecode recorded, nonstop, period. That seems pretty straighforward to me.
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As I mentioned in my post, I understand timecode breaks and what it means to ignore them. As I said, I don’t need original timecode. I just want FCP to start capturing where I tell it to start, and stop where I tell it to stop. I would prefer that it not calculate how long it “thinks” the shot will be and then abort when the shot length doesn’t match its calculation (because it’s T-O-D, not continuous).
I think I may deduce from the responses that this is a feature that FCP does not offer. Pity. It should.
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Thank you all very much. I really appreciate the thought you all put into it. And Jeff, particularly, the time you spent giving me guidance is a gift. This truly does help me in my selections. Much appreciated!
Lee
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It was a simple question, after all, and a case of pilot error. My source material is beta sp 16×9 anamorphic. I had been rendering it from AE as a widescreen image. When I set the render back to 720×480 widescreen (1.2 pixel aspect ratio), everything went fine. My bad.
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You’re right, Dave. I’ve burned myself that way before. But this time I did interpret the footage. Thanks for the thought.
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I’m sorry, I do not know the answer to your question. I am pretty new to Final Cut and I’m learning, myself. But if I had run the tests you ran, I would conclude that you have eliminated source tape and source deck as a problem. I would concentrate on the computer. I don’t know much about the capture settings yet but perhaps that could be an issue. Also, want kind of drive are you capturing to? Have you captured to that disk successfully in the past. Can you plug in a different drive and try that? This sounds hardware-ish to me. Sorry I’m not better informed. I wish you good luck.
Lee
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Thanks Shane. A quick dose of facts is a nice thing.
Cheers,
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Are you just getting the flickering on the horizontal edges of the text? The advice to soften is good. I find that doing a gaussian or vertical direction blur of a couple of pixels solves the problem — and is almost undetectable to the eye as the text scrolls by.