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May 11th, 2007, 11:33 PM | #16 |
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Jeff, this is not a "fix", but I worked out a way to reduce the loss of the beginning of the clip to about 2-3 seconds (at the most) and you could probably get it down to 1 second or so with a bit of experimenting and practice (which is a seven times better result in terms of the beginning gap).
I'd previously mostly logged each clip before capturing, but on my last 2 tapes of Native HDV 720p24 capture I tried Capture Now. But the "trick" with this is to rewind the tape at least 10-15 seconds before the beginning of each clip and then play. This allows the camera to "get up to speed" plus allows FCP to get itself in synch with the data coming off the heads and over the FireWire. I think this is where a lot of the "seven-second gap" comes from. The "skill" is then in clicking Capture Now the instant the new clip appears. I wasn't trying that hard because I'd covered myself with a 10-second pre-roll on each clip anyway, but I think the loss could be gotten down to about a second (from the precise beginning of the clip). I didn't post this before because it seems pretty lame, but then I thought that maybe some people (who are losing seven seconds at the beginning of each clip) might only be losing 3-4 seconds of footage they actually needed. So, for them, this "gap minimization" data might prove useful in some instances. |
May 12th, 2007, 06:55 PM | #17 | |
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I could get an HDD recorder, but then I'm going to shoot .m2t so I can back up the stuff to DVD anyway, so I'll wind up doing what I said I didn't want to do. I need to do more research. There's got to be a way to shoot once, capture once and begin to edit HDV 24p stuff... |
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May 12th, 2007, 07:20 PM | #18 |
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AHA! Ah. Ha...Hum.
New lead. I'm (*ahem) reading the manual, and on page 20 it says in the PLAY mode chart component/SDI Out in NATIVE mode, playback of 720/24p is 720/60p but, and it's a BIG but, the 1394 out indicates "same format as the left" so now I guess my lead fizzled. But you can, it would appear, get a different output on playback from the menu selection. I've got 720p, not native, so it should work. But it still gets captured at 59.94...there is a memo, though. "Synchronize the setting for FRAME RATE in the VIDEO FORMAT menu screen with the frame rate of the playback signal" -- maybe that's what's going on...
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June 4th, 2007, 02:43 AM | #19 |
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fcp
good info about fcp5.1.4
Last edited by Rafael Diaz; June 4th, 2007 at 08:31 AM. |
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