Old MiniDV Tapes & FCPX

[lindmar]

I just picked up an old MiniDV camera to use as a deck to capture all my old dusty tapes. I'm also using my wife's iMac with iMovie 08 and I installed FCPX.

I want to archive all my old footage and play with a bit of it again.

Some of the tapes have finished movies and family films on them... When I use the archive function, even my finished films show up as all broken files and clips.

I get a nice archive with .mov files, but it messes up all my finished films.

If I use iMovie to import, it get's the clips right and gives me .dv files. It knows when to start a new file and when to keep going.

Does that make sense? Is there any way to change the FCPX archive/import function to work properly or more like iMovie.

Just to clarify - there's a 12 minute finished movie on a MiniDV Tape. Back in the day it was exported from iMovie back to the tape. When I import the footage with iMovie 08 - that 12 minute film becomes one big .dv file - any other random stuff on the tape become other .dv files....

FCPX messes up that whole 12minute file into hundreds of little .mov clips

Thanks in advance

 

[lindmar]

Actually I was wrong...

iMovie 08 import is splitting the clips too... Very weird.

I think a workaround is a log & capture manually in FCP 7.

If anyone knows a button or option I'm forgetting to turn off, please let me know

Thanks

 

[senseless]

I use FCE's "Capture" command for mini-DV tapes. First use the "easy settings" and set up a new project to match the format. (Probably standard Firewire DV, unless it's a 16:9 format or HD. Sound is usually 48k.) You can edit and then export Quicktime movies for DVD burning from there.