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what ? you don't like FCP ? why's that

FCP is great. Extremely easy to use.

anyone have Q about FCP, PM me. i know a lot about it and i can help.
i do all my movies in FCP and its great.

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.

what you should do is drag the footage into the top left box where the footage is kept. then, double click on the footage, and press "I" for IN at the beginning. then scroll to the end of that clip and press "O" for OUT. then drag that video clip into where your original footage is, and you should have a separate clip. do this for all separate clips in the long clip and you should be good to go.

So it won't do it automatically like Premiere or iMovie? I have to capture as one big file then cut it in FCE?

Neighborhood Studios wrote:So it won't do it automatically like Premiere or iMovie? I have to capture as one big file then cut it in FCE?

You can capture it into separate clips by sitting there and stopping and restarting the capturing process.
Other than that it has to be one big file.

Wow! That's going to be add a lot of time into editing. I wonder why FCE doesn't allow for that while my other programs do...

Thanks, though!

I don't see how it'll really be that much time. You should really sit there and watch the capture anyway to make sure nothing screws up.

Or just let it capture and take the scenes you know you are going to use. That is usually how I edit. I capture the whole thing at once, and then edit it into clips, categorizing the best takes in one folder, the second best in another folder, etc... Color sorted and everything. It expedites the actual editing of the piece as a whole a lot.

or you could plug it into ur computer and drag the files to your desktop, then drag that into FCP or FCE. it'll come separate then, or it should.

I normally edit with Premiere. What I like is that is will automatically separate footage as a new cut appears on the tape. That way, I can find the cut that I want quickly, and it's done automatically in one go with no stopping.

It seems from what I hear that in FCE I have to make the digitized cuts manually, stopping and staring the tape personally as they come. This doesn't seem to be very precise, and it would add a lot of time.

I like to have Premiere automatically batch capture all the cuts by itself while I leave it and do something else...not sit and spend double the time capturing clip by clip...

So if I want automatic batch capture, will I have to go with iMovie then, and transfer footage to FCE?

It's probably that I'm not used to Macs, but something I put together in Premiere takes me double the time in FCE. Could be the 16:9 difference and higher screen resolution though.

nah, plug in ur cam and drag ur files onto the desktop. then from there, drag them to FCE. they should be separate.

I use miniDV, not a hard drive camera.

oh, i c. then yeah, good luck.