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Batch Capture in FCP doesn't like my tape
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I'm trying to do a batch capture in FCP of my vacation tape. Problem is, everytime you turn the camera on/off while shooting, it resets the time codes. This is creating major problems...
I've got all my clips logged but it won't batch capture them because the time codes aren't consistent. Because they were reset each time, FCP can't figure things out... it only captured the one clip and thought (because of the timecodes) that it had covered everything.
What am I to do? I don't want to manually capture each individual clip (I've got 200+ clips to work with), and I don't want to use iMovie (only uses medium quality).
I'm stuck and all out of ideas.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Meida, PA USA
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This is a very tipical probelm for DV, although not always an easy fix.
There is a way ( I heard) of re-timecoding all your tape before loggin it. How even if I knew how and told you it would still require you to go relog all your footage. Not a pleasent solution.
One trick I have found is to manual rewind or fastforward the tape to the middle of a timecode segmant and select those clips in it. then batch capature those x number of clips, fwd to another section of Timecome and repeat.
Its not elegant but its better than doing it manually since you already logged it all.
If you do find out how to re timecode a tape before logging (which is something important to learn if you do alot of DV work) please post it here.
Mike
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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This won't help you now but maybe later: before shooting you could stripe your tapes, i e recording a continuos timecode by recording the whole tape through with the lens cap on (and a switched off microphone plugged in). When you rewind your tape you'll have an tape with nothing but a timecode on it = no more timecode gaps.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: springfield, ohio, USA
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Stripeing is recommended but that is too late now.
What Apple recommends is when logging to specify each section of continuous time code as a reel. When capturing, it will prompt you to enter a new reel. When this happens, advance to the next section of continous time codes. It's still a pain.
There might be difficulties I'm not aware of, but you would think Apple would add a function to map the time code sections on a tape and save us all this hassle.
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