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Shinobi

Shinobi

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I shot a Commercial in HDV with the Canon A1 and passed it off to an editor for the editing. He has given it back to me as a DVD, qicktime mov, and on Mini Dv. I did not exactly like his edit and would like to make a few tweaks on it. I have been trying to import the footage from his mini dv in to FCP 6 and have been having some problems. I can import the original footage fine with the Prores 422 1080 24p yet when I try to import his I don't see any video just audio in fcp. He does not have a HDV camera so he exported using a DV cam and I am trying to import using my A1......can I use my A1 ....any idea on capture settings? Help!
 
I would ask for his Original FCP Project file , the media in the Capture Scratch folder, and any other elements used in the project (AIFF's, JPG's, Motion files, LiveType docs etc).
 
Ok gotcha.......here is another dumb question I have. How do you screw up your timecode.....is it by rewinding then filming again....or filming over stuff etc.....I just logged an entire tape and then it said it was having timecode issues when I went to batch! So I guess I just have to do capture now and do the whole thing....right?
 
Unless the tape was defective somehow in the first place, scrubbing through it a few times won't do it any harm. However, when logging a tape, you might not notice things such as timecode breaks. They can often occur around the point of a camera cut and only be a break of a couple of frames. So as you're powering through the logging you may well easily miss them. But then when you go to batch capture, pow, now FCP has to deal with them and you become well aware of their existence.

Easiest way around this is to simply go into your Final Cut Pro > User Preferences > "On Timecode break:" setting and change it to either:

- Make New Clip - does what it says, and if there are a lot of breaks will slow the overall batch digitizing of a tape down a lot (its slow to find and deal with the breaks)

or

- Warn After Capture - will actually digitize right through the TC breaks and seem like a smooth processing of the tape. Mostly I tend to avoid this, but there have been a few projects, because of the nature of HDV (well at least with the cameras those productions used) that we have used this setting to cope.

cheers.
 
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