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Final Cut Pro X and Mini DV???!!!

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hschmeichel

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Apr 28, 2011
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Hello out there.
Does anyone know if FCPX works fine with Mini Dv (capture, timecome etc..) - and if not, what to do for us with 'old school' tape recording....
Luv Hanne S
 
Will partly depend on your camera/deck, but captured a bunch of MiniDV tapes today without a problem. It's basically the same as "Capture Now" from FCP7.
 
42streetsdown said:
They have dropped support for tapes. Tapes suck.
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Tapes DO suck, but that doesn't mean you know squat about what you're talking about. I still use tapes for archiving and have old projects with time codes from logged tapes that I still need to capture from time to time...so yeah, for those of us who make a living using FCP, FCP X is unusable in that regard.
 
Alucardx03 said:
Don't listen to this guy. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

I just captured a few HDV and DV tapes without issue. It works perfectly fine.
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Ok, I won't....hahahaa
But is it possible to do some kind of log & capture or do I have to import the whole tape first and throw out later, unless I have to sit and Capture Now, which kind of nails you to the chair....

And what about timecode, is that 'out' as well????
Luv Hanne S(o can't afford a video cam everytime Apple changes the standards...)
 
What you can do is to cue the camera to the point from where you want to capture, capture, repeat. I have a Sony deck that can set capture markers while cueing.

I actually think the tape capture process has advantages: You can preview your footage and do some editing decisions in your head during capture (I oftentimes work with footage I haven't shot myself).
 
hschmeichel said:
Ok, I won't....hahahaa
But is it possible to do some kind of log & capture or do I have to import the whole tape first and throw out later, unless I have to sit and Capture Now, which kind of nails you to the chair....

And what about timecode, is that 'out' as well????
Luv Hanne S(o can't afford a video cam everytime Apple changes the standards...)
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TC is still there but log and capture is out, AFAIK.


Lethal
 
cgbier said:
What you can do is to cue the camera to the point from where you want to capture, capture, repeat. I have a Sony deck that can set capture markers while cueing.

I actually think the tape capture process has advantages: You can preview your footage and do some editing decisions in your head during capture (I oftentimes work with footage I haven't shot myself).
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Good point! All this HD stuff is new to me; just getting back in the game after a 10 yrs break... so thanks for good advice!!!!
Luv Hanne S
 
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