Paulo Jan
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COW Coins
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Thanks a lot for answering, this helps a lot.
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Stupid suggestion: check your RT settings and see if “Multiclip playback” is enabled?
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(Sorry for the late answer. I was out for the weekend and couldn’t post until now).
Sorry, my answer was a bit inaccurate. I don’t know if you’ve already found out on your own, but you don’t have just to drag the lower-right part of the window: you can also rearrange each of the areas of the Log & Transfer window by dragging the “lines” that separate them. This way, your viewer will probably become bigger than by just dragging the corner.
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Do you mean the thumbnails for each clip, or the playback window on the right? Because if it’s the latter, you can actually chane its size. Just drag the lower-right corner of the Log & Transfer window to make it bigger, and the playback window will scale appropiatedly.
(Sorry if this sounds terribly obvious, but your post was ambiguous about which window you meant.)
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Open Cinema Tools. Ignore the initial screen where it asks you to create a database. Open the flip (File/Open), and then choose the “Clip/Conform” option.
Alternatively, if you want to do this to a lot of clips, you can use “File/Batch Conform”.
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This has happened to me too. Even though the video created by Snapz Pro *is* actually 30fps (or 25fps in my case), for some reason FCP detects it as 10fps. The solution I found was to use Cinema Tools to reconform the clip to the fps I wanted (it doesn’t alter the actual video in any way, from what I can tell; all it does is to “rewrite” the headers of the QT file to make really really sure that FCP detects properly the frame rate).
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Well, there’s another potential problem. Is the timecode in the tape continuous? If not, FCP (or any other capture program) will get confused.
In order to change the preroll time (which by default is 6 sec., I believe), you need to duplicate the standard capture setting you’re using, and then do the changes in the duplicated setting (sorry. I’m not in front of my Mac at the moment).
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Here’s a very very silly suggestion: have you checked your sequence settings in FCP? Is it possible that you might have started the project with a PAL sequence by accident?
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[Shane Ross] “Importing the P2 card MXF files just creates clips that point to the media that is on the cards…it doesn’t bring it onto your media drives. TO do that you need to CONSOLIDATE them to the drive. That is how you copy them from the card.”
I know, and I’ve tried importing the MXFs both with “Consolidate” and with “File/Import P2/Media”, which is also a recommended way to do it, as per this tutorial:
https://community.avid.com/forums/post/313268.aspx
However, with both ways I’m finding the problems I’ve described above. How do you guys do it? Do you never rename the clips and just edit them with their original (“009IFP”) names? 🙂
Also, sorry for the confusion, but I should clarify that, when I talked about “mounting cards”, “importing cards” and so in my original post, I meant the “card-like” file structure, after it’s been offloaded to my hard drive. The “CONTENTS + LASTCLIP.TXT” folder, in other words, which I guess you could call a “virtual card”, residing in my hard drive. (I just wrote “card” because, after all, it’s much shorter than writing “virtual card folder” or whatever…).
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Got it. Thanks.