Steven Gonzales
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If the camera and sound were running continuously, there’s an easy way to sync them up.
Put the video into the timeline, mark a sync point near the beginning (a loud footstep or door slam works great) with an IN mark.
At the end of the clip in the timeline, mark another sync point (another loud quick sound) with an OUT mark.
Now take your audio clip and open it in the viewer. Find the same sync point you used for the video in the timeline, and mark IN, find the other sync point in the audio and mark OUT.
Now drag that audio from the viewer to the canvas and drop it on “Fit to Fill”. Now audio should be in sync, having been speed changed to fit properly through the “Fit to Fill” function.
Drag out the ends of the audio in the timeline, to get the complete audio, and you should be in sync.
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As a beginning film student, you should be aware of these concepts:
https://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm
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Have you tried syncing all the video only into multiclip, and then adding the audio to the multiclip in a timeline?
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If you log the clips before you capture them, then go back and batch capture, you will get individual clips that are short.
Or you could just go to five minute time intervals, find the nearest camera stop point, and log that, go five minutes more, etc.
Or you could capture with imovie, which I believe separates clips on import. Then I think you can export the clips by dragging and dropping them from the Imovie clips pane.
This is second hand info, because I’ve never used imovie.
I usually watch my footage while it’s capturing, because the more I watch it, the more familiar with it I get. I haven’t tried taking a nap, but maybe I’d be less grouchy if I did.
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For the answer to this and many other common issues, one of the forum leaders Shane Ross has a couple handy FAQs. To illustrate how handy these are, #1 Stock Answer is your issue:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq.php
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Here’s an interesting white paper on firewire port failure:
https://www.wiebetech.com/whitepapers/FireWirePortFailures.php
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Theres a book called Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors. I haven’t read it, but that might help.
On the Mac, activate the finder (click the desktop) and under the help menu, select Mac help. You should see the “Switching from Windows” topic, if not search for it. That should give you a start in understanding the User Interface.
If you have a trustworty Mac savvy person to help, you could save money with used equipment. Especially if you don’t need motion and color, you have a choice of pretty cheap desktops you could start with until you make some money, depending on your capture card choice (certain capture cards require certain types of bus slots, so that limits your machine choices).
Here’s the tech specs for Final Cut Studio 2: https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs.html
Here’s a place to look at specs for older macs (including card slot types); http://www.everymac.com
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Perhaps Traffic from xmedit might do what you want. It’s a node based editor.
“Experiment like never before by copying and pasting Effects and Filters across sequences, multiple sequences, even multiple sequences across multiple projects.”
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What type of deck are you using?
If it has firewire, then you can get the info across that way.
If it has RS422 on the deck, you need a USB to serial adapter. The keyspan USA-28X
https://www.keyspan.com/products/usa28xg/homepage.2.reqs.spmland a proper cable
https://www.addenda-elect.com/product.htm
https://www.pipelinedigital.com/adaptcm9.htmlshould do the job.