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Charlie Wu · July 4th, 2003, 02:47 AM

hi,

i am trying to edit footages from a field trip i had. i shot 7 tapes total; and now i am trying to them with fcp. i am thinking how should i transfer them from tape to HD. i definately don't have the space for all the tapes. However, doing it one tape by one seems to take a long time.

any suggestion on how i should the transfering???

thanks

Charlie Wu · July 4th, 2003, 01:44 PM

i guess it was a stupid question..

but first time thou

Brian Wood · July 4th, 2003, 03:14 PM

My friend and myself got back from an education experiance in Washington D.C. On the trip we documentated everything we did so we could put togeather a documentary-style video to encourage more kids to go next year. We ended up with about 5 tapes and ended up just buying a 200gb firewire external hd for like 300 which is pleanty of space for anything we do in the future. And as so maybe people have said on this forum, there are no stupid questions, espicially this one because it is a problem that many have faced.

Corey MacGregor · July 4th, 2003, 04:38 PM

What i would do is use the batch capture function. I don't really have time to explain but if you look in the final cut help menu i think it gives a decent explanation on how to do it. This way you capture only the footage you want to use and if you label your clips good then it is alot easier to edit everything together. This will only work if you don't have any broken timecode on the tapes. I highly recommend this method for projects with alot of footage.

corey

Charlie Wu · July 6th, 2003, 12:34 PM

thanks guys..

corey,
i couldn't use the batch capture, fcp freeze when i click on the bottom.

Bud Kuenzli · July 6th, 2003, 01:19 PM

if you can't batch capture then you have some real problem with fcp. If I tried to bc with fcp and it failed I'd be working on that until it was fixed. You certainly don't want to be forced to capture the entire tape. You can "capture now" in fcp and just get what you want, but batch capturing is much better. Get a FCP guru to help you fix this flaw if you can because once you start batch capturing, it will be the only way to go with footage that has bits and pieces of good mixed with bad (and that's most footage).

Charlie Wu · July 8th, 2003, 04:41 PM

thanks bud....
i'll look into it...

July 4th, 2003, 02:47 AM	#1
Charlie Wu Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Long Beach, CA USA Posts: 64	short project with fcp hi, i am trying to edit footages from a field trip i had. i shot 7 tapes total; and now i am trying to them with fcp. i am thinking how should i transfer them from tape to HD. i definately don't have the space for all the tapes. However, doing it one tape by one seems to take a long time. any suggestion on how i should the transfering??? thanks __________________ Charlie Wu

July 4th, 2003, 01:44 PM	#2
Charlie Wu Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Long Beach, CA USA Posts: 64	i guess it was a stupid question.. but first time thou __________________ Charlie Wu

July 6th, 2003, 12:34 PM	#5
Charlie Wu Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Long Beach, CA USA Posts: 64	thanks guys.. corey, i couldn't use the batch capture, fcp freeze when i click on the bottom. __________________ Charlie Wu

July 6th, 2003, 01:19 PM	#6
Bud Kuenzli Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: North Pole, Alaska Posts: 197	get fcp working if you can't batch capture then you have some real problem with fcp. If I tried to bc with fcp and it failed I'd be working on that until it was fixed. You certainly don't want to be forced to capture the entire tape. You can "capture now" in fcp and just get what you want, but batch capturing is much better. Get a FCP guru to help you fix this flaw if you can because once you start batch capturing, it will be the only way to go with footage that has bits and pieces of good mixed with bad (and that's most footage). __________________ on the Internet, when you get where you're going you still don't know where you are

July 8th, 2003, 04:41 PM	#7
Charlie Wu Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Long Beach, CA USA Posts: 64	thanks bud.... i'll look into it... __________________ Charlie Wu

July 4th, 2003, 03:14 PM	#3
Brian Wood Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: East Lansing, Michigan Posts: 77	My friend and myself got back from an education experiance in Washington D.C. On the trip we documentated everything we did so we could put togeather a documentary-style video to encourage more kids to go next year. We ended up with about 5 tapes and ended up just buying a 200gb firewire external hd for like 300 which is pleanty of space for anything we do in the future. And as so maybe people have said on this forum, there are no stupid questions, espicially this one because it is a problem that many have faced.

July 4th, 2003, 04:38 PM	#4
Corey MacGregor Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Vancouver Posts: 74	What i would do is use the batch capture function. I don't really have time to explain but if you look in the final cut help menu i think it gives a decent explanation on how to do it. This way you capture only the footage you want to use and if you label your clips good then it is alot easier to edit everything together. This will only work if you don't have any broken timecode on the tapes. I highly recommend this method for projects with alot of footage. corey