Apple 6 manual Recapturing HDV Footage

To determine how timecode breaks are handled when you capture HDV footage:

1Choose Final Cut Pro > User Preferences, then click the General tab.

2Choose an option from the “On timecode break” pop-up menu:

åMake New Clip: This is the default option. Whenever a timecode break is detected during capture, Final Cut Pro finishes writing the current media file to disk and then begins capturing a new media file. A clip corresponding to the new media file is also created in the Browser.

åAbort Capture: If you choose this option, Final Cut Pro stops capture immediately when a timecode break is detected. All media captured before the timecode break has frame-accurate timecode and is preserved. The resulting media files are saved and the corresponding clips are placed in the Browser.

Depending on the signal on tape, you may see one of two messages when a timecode break is detected:

åA “stream error” message

åA “timecode break error” message

åWarn After Capture: When you capture HDV, this option behaves identically to the Abort Capture option.

How Clips Are Named When Start/Stop Indicators and Timecode Breaks Are Detected

Filenames for new media files and clips generated by start/stop indicators and timecode breaks are appended with a number to ensure they have unique names. For example, suppose you are capturing a media file named Cafe Wide Shot when a scene or timecode break is detected. At the break detection point, Final Cut Pro begins capturing a new media file named Cafe Wide Shot-1. If there is already a media file named Cafe Wide Shot-1, the new media file is named Cafe Wide Shot-2, and so on.

Recapturing HDV Footage

Recapturing HDV footage is similar to recapturing other video formats. It is important that your clips contain accurate timecode or you may have difficulty recapturing. For more information about recapturing footage, see the Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual, Volume I, Chapter 17, “Capturing Your Footage to Disk.”

Important: Some HDV camcorders do not record timecode, so recapturing media files from tapes recorded by these camcorders may result in new media files with an offset of one or two frames.

Chapter 1 Working with HDV

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