Shane Ross
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I think this is something that you need to plan for when you capture. Normally, unless you tell it different, FCP captures video and audio as one file, so trying to consolidate JUST the audio is something that it might not be able to do.
But, you can tell FCP to capture the audio and video files separately. In that case, I am sure than media managing just the audio would be a snap.
But I haven’t tried it, so…I cannot say for sure.
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That would be a useful feature…
And I mistreat my assistants too, rendering to God knows where, leaving it up to them to clean and shuffle. I was an assistant for 3 years, and it drove me BATTY. Now I do it.
I feel a little like Pat Morita.
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Really trying not to be snide here, but this is why you create a bin for the cut and put it there in the first place. Then you know where it is. Editing all willy nilly (OK, that is snide) like this is sloppy. Editors who do that drive assistants NUTS.
Organization is the key.
And no way to find a sequence other than knowing what bin that it is in as far as I know.
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By find an edit, you mean find your SEQUENCE? The cut sequence? Where did you put it if not in a bin? When you first add something to the timeline it prompts you WHERE DO YOU WANT THIS CUT TO GO…and you choose a bin. You cannot have a sequence without it being in a bin.
I’d suggest opening ALL your bins and looking…
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Get a capture card. Capture all your sources as one type THRU the card. DV for offline, or better yet OFFLINE RT, then recapture at 8-bit uncompressed (all your HDV, DVCAM, Beta, whathaveyou) and then everything will be one codec…for offline and online.
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The Kona 2 has the ability to upconvert SD footage of HD.
If it is DV though, it won’t look that good. Basically zooming into the footage nearly 200%.
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As far as I know, 24p HDV is not supported by FCP. 25 and 30 fps only.
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Breaking tapes up into smaller clips is just smart in general. If you lose one, then it won’t take an hour to re-capture it, only 10 min.
I suggest Logging and Capturing clips in 10 minute chunks, of course waiting until between questions.
Plus is does help FCP..and you…in terms of speed. Searching a 10 min clip instead of an hour long one is always faster.
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You might try to set your device control to UNCONTROLLED DEVICE and then press play from the camera. But doing this is dangerous. TC is a VITAL thing.
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Because of HDVs MPEG-2 compression scheme. Capturing HDV will always cause it to break up the clips on camera start-stops. because the mpeg-2 data flow has been interrupted.
Nature of the beast.