Matthew Nelson
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Also if you have clips already captured with superfluous audio you can open the clip in quicktime. Hit command-J, highlight the unwanted audio hit delete then save the clip. FCP will say the clip(s) have gone offline. Reconnect them which FCP will say the clips don’t match the original just continue and there you go no more extra audio.
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Check your scratch disk. Are you capturing to the system drive? If so change to another drive. Cardinal rule for FCP never capture or render to the system drive.
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In the bin of FCP the column Vid Rate will tell you the frame rate of the media.
If you want further details you can highlight the clip then select Tools/Analyze Movie/Clip. This will give you the resolution, color depth, frame rate, etc.
The reason Jeremy was asking for the frame rate is because the symptoms you are describing are exactly what you would get if your frame rate was off. If your frame rate is off you can try correcting it with Cinema Tools. TEST THIS FIRST. COPY a clip the size is irrelevent so a small one will take less time to copy. Open cinema tools cancel out of the windows asking for a data base. File/Open clip navegate to the copy you made and select open. Select the conform button. Select the frame rate you want and press conform.
Open the conformed clip and play it. If it works great if not you probably have bad media.
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In your case the camcorder is a deck so you would fall under the category of a deck to deck solution.
I used the free capture ETT to tape then back into FCP to fix a few DVCPRO HD tapes shot using free run with a trigger happy cameraman because it was cheaper to pay the AE the extra time then rent another deck.
Just another option that’s all.
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I completely agree free captures are very risky and I am not endorsing it as a workflow. But capture now can be useful (especially if capturing broken TC on DVCPRO HD) and using it followed by ETT back to a new tape will produce a clone without the need a second deck or the cost of a dub house.
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If you what to use a logged tape for your project. Capture now the entire tape as a noncontrolled device. Lay the clip in a sequence. ETT that sequence to a new tape. Capture the new tape as your master.
Letting FCP sort out TC breaks can lead to many many clips with -1 added to both the clip and reel. TC breaks can cause clips to be inside roll in. Yes you can adjust the amount of roll in but taking it to 0 is not good.
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Set control to uncontrolled device and use the capture now option.
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To lay down compression makers goto the areas in question in your sequence and place the play head on first frame of the shot that’s giving you the problem, make sure no clips are highlighed, then press m twice. A marker dialog box will come up, select compression marker. This will force an “i” frame at that spot.
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I’d try building your top in a separate sequence then nest that sequence and apply motion blur. give yourself some extra room on the head side. It takes FCP motion blur a few frames to get up to speed so to speak.
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When you say it happens in the middle of renders I would suspect it is the result of a memory leak. Either with FCP or with any plugins you are using.
But to be clear the TRT of the sequence and type of format(s) used are irrelevant. What counts is space in memory for all the elements that FCP requires to calculate each new frame. If memory is not being released you will run out as a render progresses.