Encoding from tape

I have an older JVC video camera that shoots on tape. I have a lot of old videos I want to import into FCPX. I bought a new 9pin to firewire 800 cable that attaches to the 800 to thurderbolt adapter. For some reason I can't get the camera to show up in FCPX or anywhere. Is there something I need to download to make it work? I have the new imac, if that helps.

Dark1 wrote:
I have an older JVC video camera that shoots on tape. I have a lot of old videos I want to import into FCPX. I bought a new 9pin to firewire 800 cable that attaches to the 800 to thurderbolt adapter. For some reason I can't get the camera to show up in FCPX or anywhere. Is there something I need to download to make it work? I have the new imac, if that helps.
You should need nothing else.
To confirm: The cable is 4 pin to camera and 9 pin to Thunderbolt adapter?
This will work with DV importing.
If not check the cable or ports for damage.
Al

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What do you mean by "encode from video tape?" Do you mean capture? I think you can, if you have the appropriate hardware, e.g. a third-party capture card, and FCP installed. Obviously, this is only available on the Mac, which I'm assuming you're using since you referred to FCP.
Or do you mean something else?

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I usually record to tape with my dvx100 using 24pa, but sometimes the quick setup dial was switched accidentally resulting in a different frame encoding, like 24p for example.
Everything is recorded in 29.97fps on mini-dv, we all know that, making apparently no difference b/w 24p and 24pa.
But of course, when i'm trying to capture this footage through FCP, i can't always remove the advanced pulldown because there's a few clips that have been recorded with 24p instead of 24pa.
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- Can you get FCP to create a new clip (at least stop) the capture for those sections of the tape where I have something different than 24pa?
- If nothing like that is possible, how do you solve this problem?
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the only pulldown pattern that FCP can remove at capture is 24pA (3:2:2:3). Standard 3:2 pulldown can only be reversed using cinema tools. If you open the clip in cinema tools, you'll need to park the playhead on the first frame of the pulldown cadence for it to correctly remove the pulldown. This will create new copies of your clips, which will take up a corresponding amount of space. There is no way for either FCP or CT to reconize the pulldown cadence of standard 3:2 clips, so you'll have to manually find the A frame of the cadence. If you have a huge number of them to do, you may find it quicker to place each clip in a sequence where you can put the A frame of the cadence as the first frame in the sequence. Export these as a batch of reference movies, and you should be able to do a batch inverse telecine on them in Cinema Tools.
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Hey Guys,
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I have Oracle 10g and I am using RMAN to backup to disk and then I use Networker to backup on tapes from disk (retention is set to 30 days on tapes). On RMAN - my retention policy is set to recovery window of 5 days after which it deletes the obsolete backup from disk and updates the control file.
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2.How can I test my tape backup which is older than 5 days. In other words how can I restore my database from tape on another server/
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If you need to restore the whole database to a point in time that is 20 days old, you "only" need:
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6. restore and recover database with RMAN with the right SET UNTIL clause.
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How to restore a Rman backup from Tape

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Hi,
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Database Restore & Recovery from tape

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initfile and spfile
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Just had the same problem. I have had cs2 cs3 and cs4 on the same PC Windows XP Pro.
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Download the latest Adobe Media Encoder updates.
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Splitting events when capturing footage from tape

Using Final Cut Pro x, I want to capture footage from tape which is of a more then one event. what is the best way of doing this so as to avoid all of the footage captured as one event.

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Solved...
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Depends on the tape format. DV, HDV, DVCPRO HD...all can be captured natively. Digibeta, Beta, HDCAM, D5...all need to be captured into another format...Uncompressed.
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When I capture from tape, express 4 now breaks my captured material into separate shots, an icon in the browser for each. Before it captured the whole clip till I hit escape, and created just one Icon. How to i get back the way it was.

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What you describe is normal behavior for HDV capture using FCE.
DV captures as one clip or may split the clip if there are timecode breaks on the tape.
HDV always breaks clips at the shot changes using FCE.
HDV cameras can downconvert to DV even if HDV was used to record the footage so it's important to know what the camera outputs during FCE capture.
Maybe this is why you have had mixed results with the differing capture windows?
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Hi, can somebody help. Problem as below. Can't boot OS (solaris 10) after restoring it to new disk from tape.
Boot device: /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/disk@1,0 File and args:
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Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
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