[Melanie Bruggemans]

Thanks, the advice Steven gave worked. I turned of the video playback and it works!

Thanks for all your help. You guys are great..

[Melanie Bruggemans]

I am sorry, I seem to have a problem expressing myself 🙂
I will go step by step:

My setup:
Project format: PAL, 25 frames. Fcp project file is saved on my internal drive (Boot drive). I use DV-PAL Anamorphic
Capture preset: DV PAL 48 kHz Anamorphic
Device Control Preset: FireWire PAL
Playback output Video: Apple FireWire PAL (720×576)
Playback output Audio Firewire Dv.

Capturing:
File/log & capture (apple8)
I press play on the deck, tapes starts to play
I press capture now
Scratch disc: Lacie
I capture 38 minutes of footage from the tape
Preferences: Warn about time code breaks only after capture.

After capture I click on the file that was just captured, I scroll through it in Final cut pro(my 38 min that I just captured). I scroll through and I can only view 1min and 13 sec in Final Cut.
I go to finder, search for the file on the hard drive and find the footage that was captured. It captures straight onto my Lacie. I open it in Quicktime from the Lacie and the whole 38 min is in the Quicktime file, but I can only see 1min and 13 sec in Final Cut Pro self.
I go into Final Cut Pro delete the captured file, re-import from the hard drive. I can still only see 1min 13 sec.

To try and solve the problem, I go to Mpeg Streamclip and convert the file from the Lacie from mov to dv. I import the dv 38min and it works. If I leave it as the originally captured
file I can only see 1min 13 sec. If I convert it and import it from dv, I see the whole 38min.

I hope this is a bit better
Thanks
Melanie
I hope this explains it a bit better.

[Melanie Bruggemans]

Drives are formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
I go apple 8, play tape, capture now. Device control FireWire PAL, Capture input: DV PAL 48kHz Anamorphic. I use a FireWire 800 cable to capture from the deck.

[Melanie Bruggemans]

🙂 Sorry you are correct. The file is in fcp after it has been captured, but I delete and import to see if it wont fix the problem, but even if I delete and import, I still only see a part of the footage.
Converting it to DV seems to solve the problem, but it does not seem normal to have to convert it to be able to work.

Thanks

[Melanie Bruggemans]

I am using 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel G5 with 6 GB memory. I am capturing a miniDV tape (DVcam) from a Sony HDV deck onto an external 1.5 GB Lacie. I capture PAL 16:9(Anamorphic). I then import into a PAL 16:9 project from my Lacie into my project which is saved on my internal drive.

It seems like I can only import part of my file that I captured onto my Lacie. When I open the file in Quicktime I see all the footage that I captured that was on the tape (I use the capture now function). As soon as I import the mov file into my fcp project only part of the file imports (although on my hard drive the whole tape can be seen if you scroll through the footage). For example if I capture 30 min worth of footage, only the first 10 min imports. But in Quicktime the whole 30 min is visible.

Can it be because there are time code breaks in the footage? Which does not make sense because I have never had this problem before.
When I convert the mov file to dv I can see all the footage (the whole file and not just part of it) in fcp.

Thanks
Melanie

[Melanie Bruggemans]

Thanks a mill. I just finished manual labor!! I did the 4 column sheets you suggested (the last 3 months!). Thanks for the app. Will check it out.