Matt Callac
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Easier than that. Pop the project open in motion. IN the file browser naviagate to the clip you want to be the new “track 5 ” clip. In the layer menu flip open the layer that has the old “track 5” clip Highlight the old track 5 clip and from he browser drag the new clip directly ontop of the old clip and a little arrow icon should pop up. This will replace the media and leave all your effects. Then hold option while you drag on the clip in the timeline till you get the desired inpoint of the clip (same as a roll edit in FCP). If the clip is too long to roll through, export a reference file out of FCP and do the same as above.
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Or right click on the clip and it will be in the menu that pops up
or you can hit “control” + “D” to bring up the duration.
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select the file and hit “opt” + “return”
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Why are you installing all the way up. You can just install 5 directly and all you need is your old FCP serial number.
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Hopefully no one who owns your book saw that, or else you might lose some street cred. Oh, drat, I have your book. Good thing I’m in no position to give or recieve street cred.
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that’ll give you duration of 3.01, you’d need to hit left arrow once with no shift if you need 3 seconds exaclty.
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For some reason it does this if you are rendering in high precision YUV. You can either disable high-precision YUV in the video processing tab, or always do compositing with drop shadows in another app such as motion or AE.
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Typically, I don’t capture whole tapes and was only doing these for a dvd, so the work around was just finding where the faux breaks were and capture a short segment and TC matching it to the original on the timeline. I’m not sure if it’s just when downconverting, but I would seriously doubt it. I think it’s just a slight bug for long captures. I do recall another instance which i did capture a full tape and it was successful. In this instance I was running on FCP 4.5. I think there are just some problems in 5 captureing large blocks of video. I posted yesterday about a problem we are having on another DV only system where we drop frames around 15 min or so capturing to a drive that when running FCP 4.5 was able to caputer clips of an hour plus.
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We had a similar issue recently. I needed to capture a 90 min beta and a 60 min beta of a lecture to put on dvd. Logged a long clip of the whole tape hit batch capture and took a long lunch break. when I got back I found that there were about 3 areas where FCP decided there were TC Breaks where there in fact were not. I tried capturing it again and got about just as many timecode breaks but in different places. I was downconverting to DV through our AJA Io. I’m guessing that when you had this problem you were capturing rather large clips, or perhaps even whole tapes.
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The only DV deck we have is the JVC. We dont’ actually use it for doing production stuff, we just have it b/c we have a dubbing facility as well. I just used it to test and make sure that it wasn’t the DA-max causing the problem. I’ll have to try and borrow a Sony to see if that’ll work.
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