[Riske De vries]

Sadly I never resolved that problem… I just used another computer, that didn’t have the problem, for some reason.
Are you sure that you don’t have some box checked that says “limit capture to…” or that the files are in your capture scratch anyway?
You could also try to capture to your desktop, instead of an external disk. I once had a problem like that, trying to capture to a FAT32 hard disk, which wouldn’t accept files larger than 4 GB.
It might have something to do with FCP’s settings… Or your computers settings.
I hope you find out what the problem is…

[Riske De vries]

What happened with you sounds to me as a timecode break. I read that, even when there are no timecode breaks on the tape, the camera could cause timecode breaks when the heads need to be cleaned.
Maybe worth a try?

What you describe about clips sometimes not appearing in the bin, but only in the capture scratch, I’ve seen that too. that’s not my problem today. I don’t know yet why it happened, but on another computer the problem didn’t occur… if I find out what caused it, I’ll post it here.

[Riske De vries]

Sorry I didn’t mention that before, but no, none of these boxes were checked!

[Riske De vries]

To add somethnig else to this subject; I’m trying to capture a new tape now, and FCP seems confused.
I just used capture now and started on the beginning of the tape. (At a timecode of 30 seconds)
The tape has an hour of film and says “NOW CAPTURING” for an hour, and you can see the images playing on screen.
But when the capture is finished, I open the captured file and it is only 20 minutes long.
I tried to capture the same tape using batch capture; same result.
I tried to capture the rest of the tape AFTER those first 20 minutes and it seemed to work, only again only 20 minutes were captured and strange enough those had the same timecode as the first clip!
Is FCP going crazy??
anyone else has these issues?
Might it be a solution to get a capture device, so I don’t have to use the camera to capture?

[Riske De vries]

My scratch drive wasn’t a firewire actually. It is on the network we use here, so it uses the network cable… but maybe that has the same problems as using firewire.
but maybe I/we should try capturing to the desktop to make it easier on the computer…

[Riske De vries]

Hi Lee,

Thank you for your reply. I was hoping for a solution, but was kind of afraid someone might say what you said… From now on I’ll make sure I keep the captured files!
Do you think that this problem occurs only with those 2 camera’s you mentioned? Or is it an HD problem?
Well, I hope it gets resolved some day…
Thanx!
riske