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Neighborhood Studios wrote:I use miniDV, not a hard drive camera.

Yeah, with that, you will probably have to capture it all at once and divide it, or divide it while capturing. The next time I see my editing professor, I'll ask him though. He has a ridiculous knowledge of FCP.

I usually watch the footage first, and then write down the start and end time of the take I need to capture. Then I organize while I capture.

Neighborhood Studios wrote:I've gotta question I'll throw out.

This irritates me the most about FCE. I am trying to import footage, but the program doesn't seem to split clips individually. For example, if I have footage with 5 shots, iMovie would automatically separate the individual clips for easy editing. In FCE, the whole tape is one long video clip. How can this be solved? This is for a wide range of cameras.

And in using a Sony HVR-A1U, the program will not even recognize the camera and allow playback control or capture.

Ok It's been some time since I used FCP or FCE but I think there is a setting somewhere on it. What the computer is essentially doing is taking the time code and date/ time encoded on the video and figuring out when it was shot. My VX 1000 resets to not record time every time I turn it off because the clock battery is dead so I have to set the clock before each session. The computer takes the time stamp and figures out when each shot was taken even though the timecode on the tape is continuous. There should be a function in FCP that allows you to split the footage based on shooting time and date, I know it exists, I just don't know where it is. If you are not recording time or date on your footage it will not work though so I'd check that first.

Hope that helps

envisageworks wrote:Ewww...

Yeah, why don't you like FCP?

Hmm... You can do that in Vegas by clicking on the "separate clips folder". Ill ask my buddies at creakvision if they know how as well. They're pretty smart...

I've looked through FCE's settings, and I can't find any setting for scene detection, so any info you can find will be really helpful. I think Premiere does it by locating breaks in the digital tape.

Yeah, I'm not sure if the setting actually exists. I mean, it should but I've never actually seen it. I was editing a project in FCP about a year ago and I looked for it but couldn't find it. The director made me go through all the footage and manually log everything and that was like four hours of interviews, there was an additional ten hours of b-roll but we didn't need all of that logged. Needless to say I was rather put out, especially when we wound up with a two second audio lag after we were done and had to do most of the work over again. Next time I use FCP the first thing I'm going to do is find a way to automatically break clips up. Doing it manually is just pain.