24pa day from hell

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Ldogg

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I should have posted on the forum and saved some sleep, but instead I dug through the manual all afternoon/night, however I am still stuck.

I'm trying to log and capture some 24pa footage. I press play on the veiwer, set an in and an out point as it goes, then press stop. I then press "log clip" and see the unrendered/captured clip in the browser.

For some reason the in and out points never register in the browser, however the "media start" and "media end" correspond to the time code numbers I chose for the in and out. However, when I click on the words "not set" in the in/out columns my time code numbers appear and are highlighted. no matter what I do though, as soon as I highlight something else it returns to "not set" status.

So I've tried to capture the clip anyways, and without fail it captures any random approx. two seconds of footage within the clip, and then it stops. Those two seconds then become a new clip within the browser and are rendered.

Am I missing something. I'm too tired to be a newbie and too stubborn to quit. Could it be a time code problem? thanks.
 
Make sure you're set for NDF (non-drop frame) otherwise it could be offset.
Make sure you don't have timecode breaks. If so you may have 2 clips with the same numbers and it will go to the first one it finds.
Media Start and End are your capture points.
In/Out points are set after you capture the clip and then set in/out points of the clip itself for the edit.
Just set start and end capture points, log clip and the ndo a batch capture. try just a shot or two to make sure you have the process down and that it's working.
 
Say I'm bringing in a clip that for thirty seconds I shot a 9am in the morning and then the camera was turned off and the very next footage is from thirty seconds and hour later (the hour being in terms of time of day)...my time code numbers jump like that but they don't neccassarily duplicate or have "same numbers" like you warned. Would that be an issue or is it still jam synched even though it is a jump in time, not neccassarily time code? Could I have recorded originally with some weird tc setting on the footage that could be messing it up?
 
Any time there is a difference it can throw off editing software.
In your case it coudl start fast reversing, asuming there's a fair bit of footage until it get's to 9am but instead it gets there almost immediately.
Not as bad as redundant timecodes but not the simplest form. I haven't dealt with this myself so the best thing to do is get a shot. You may have to change soem the fcp prefs so it doesn't auto-abort.
 
I kind of tried it, but not excersising every variable....but as I continue the trial and error do you think it might work if I change the timecode to "clip time" rather than "resource time"?

Also how worried should I be continuously working on the same tape? Is tech so fragile that all this rewinding and fast forwarding going to cause some wear and tear?
 
Tapes shoudl certainly be able to be run through a machine quite a few times.
If you're doing this as a test consider shooting some quick and dirty footage on another tape to try things out. $5 for the test tape can be worth it.
 
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