Log and capture or Log and transfer?

I'm a newbie to FCP, I've been working at it and researching, so I have a basic understanding, been able to do some good stuff, now I'm looking to find more time-economical ways to do things. I'm a football coach, looking to cut up game films into individual plays (1 play per clip), and ideally being able to name each clip by it's play name "Trap" or "Pop Pass" for example. It looks like I need to get into logging if possible. My workflow at present when dealing with an opponent's film is to take a DVD, and get it onto my computer using MPEG Streamclip. I've been using DVC-PAL as a codec at someone's suggestion, I can't rmemeber where I got that. Is this a mistake? Anyhow, I now import that movie file into FCP using File>Import. At this point I can't do any logging though, if I try Log and Capture or Log and Transfer I get "Unable to initialize video deck", though it tells me I can still use Capture Now. Once it opens the Log and Capture window, I get "Error: this operation requires a controllable deck." and directs me to the Audio/Video Settings. Here's where I'm pretty much lost. Do I try to adjust settings from here? If so, to what? Do I need to start by changing my MPEG Streamclip settings and then trying to match those up in my FCP Audio/Video Settings? Or do I need to completely overhaul the way I'm approaching this? ARGH! I've been impressed with myself getting to this point, any help from here would be greatly appreciated, thanks all!
Grouch

Log and Capture is used if you are capturing footage from tape based formats. DV, HDV, HDCAM...others.
Log and Transfer is for tapeless camera systems. P2, XDCAM, Canon DSLR, AVCHD.
If your footage comes from DVDs...and you convert the footage to QT files...then you simply go to FILE>IMPORT. You don't log with this method. Just import and work with the footage.

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(EDIT: simplified title)
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P1: Agreed. I didn't do a very good job of explaining myself.
I have failed to get the multiple "install updates" methods to work at all, though I would love it to work. For Server 2008 installs the process gets stuck for 20mins on the "Detecting Updates..." stage, and loops round again to download
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Thanks for you feed back. It is useful to know it "can" work as it implies there is a problem someone (either with me or SCCM). You help is appreciated.
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NOOB question. Log and capture vs transfer?

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Also, does Final Cut typically not recognize a camera through a USB connection? Does it have to be a firewire? I have a USB out, A/V R, and HDMI out ports on my sony handycam, but all I have is the USB cable for now. Thanks for any additional help.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4722

Logging and Capturing

As a result of this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3857627#3857627
I did a test of various ways to capture footage into FCP. Sorry for saying this again but I’m new to FCP - after 20 some odd years editing with proprietary, Avid and Premiere Pro NLE’s. I mention this [again] because it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks, and some of the bias that I’ve gathered along the way might show up in the way I approached this.
I have four one hour HDV tapes recorded on a Sony HC1; I used the same camera that created the tapes to down convert and capture standard definition NTSC anamorphic DV. Each taped averaged about 70-80 clips.
Tape 1
The first tape I logged the clips using the controls in the log and capture window. Fairly straightforward, but the HC1 was not very responsive to the J/K/L keys and the image in the capture window was very low resolution during scrubbing and searching. This made the process of logging slower than it should be. Once logged, batch capturing was fairly quick [about 1:12:00:00 to capture a 60 minute tape] and pretty much what I expected.
This was not a very efficient way to capture 70-80 clips, a lot of time wasted with pre and post roll. If you had fewer, 20-50 this might be the better way to capture but for what I was doing this was my least favorite way.
Tape 2
After entering the clip information into the log window I hit K key and capture “Now” button and captured the entire tape. I was a little concerned at what would happen when timecode ran out at the end. Nothing happened, it stopped and the clip appeared in the capture bin – all was good.
Once captured I created a custom Browser window with only the columns I wanted to log and make subclips: [following Steve Braker’s instructions]
1) Loaded the master clip into the viewer.
2) Set in and out points for the first clip.
3) Command-U to create a subclip.
4) Re-named the subclip, added description and label.
5) Click in Viewer and
6) Repeated steps 2-5 until 70 clips later it was complete.
Steve suggested deleting or moving the master clip, however checking the folder in the finder where the master clip was store revealed that this process didn’t produce individual clips. Apparently the subclips are simply pointers to the master file so I didn’t delete it.
This process was surprisingly fast but I still ended up with a single file that was approximately 5GB’s which made this process almost useless for working with subclips in Motion2 for example.
Tape 3
Marked an [in and out] in 20 minute intervals to create three master clips for this reel.
1) Loaded the master clip part 1 of 3 into the viewer.
2) In the Mark menu selected DV Start/Stop
3) After FCP placed markers at the scene breaks I “clicked the disclosure triangle” next to the master clip to reveal all of the markers in the Browser.
4) Selected all of the markers to highlight them
5) Chose Modify>Make subclip after which the subclips appeared in the same bin as the master clip and markers [note* at this point I checked my hard drive to find there was still only one contiguous master file for these subclips.
6) Re-named each subclip, added description and label and then placed them in a separate bin and placed the subclips that I didn’t want to keep in a bin to be deleted. [temp trash]
7) Highlighted the subclips that I wanted to convert to Independent clips
8) Chose File>Media Manager
9) Chose Use Existing from the “Media referenced by selected clip” drop down.
10) Selected the “Delete unused media from selected clips.”
11) Chose Clip Names from the “Base media file names on” drop down (Oops, sorry that’s for a PC) pop-up menu.
12) Un-checked the “Duplicate selected clip and place into new project.” This placed the independent clips in the same folder on your hard drive as the master file for the subclips. I suspect although I did not test it that if I had this checked I could choose a different folder?
13) Held my breath and clicked OK!
14) That’s when FCP started treating me like a total idiot “are you sure you want to do this, you’d better be because there’s no going back. Are you really, really sure…” Anyway for me since this is the only project on this machine I didn’t even read the warnings [yes I am an impatient idiot] **** the torpedoes full steam ahead..
15) Done! NOT Quite yet. You’d think that since I un-checked the “Duplicate selected clip and place into new project,” that FCP would be smart enough to place the new clips in my project window. Didn’t happen, had to control click and import files.
This process requires a bit more explanation. I had 16 subclips that I converted to independent clips, after which I deleted all associated subclips and markers. When I imported files there were only seven clips in the folder where the master clips was saved [now deleted as part of this process].
On further inspection all of the footage that I wanted was there, HOWEVER, by using the DV Start/Stop to create markers and then using those markers to create subclips if there are two or more clips with continuous timecode it consolidates them into one contiguous clip thereby defeating the purpose of creating the subclips in the first place. I’m guessing but if I hadn’t deleted some of the subclips I didn’t want to convert I would have ended up with the same large file with a different name.
The manual recommends that you delete the master clip from the Browser before converting the subclips into individual clips. I was suspicious of the need to do this so I left it and after the conversion it did what I expected, became offline. It was a good thing because I could use it to recapture. Also, any logging with description and labels etc is history it is not included in the new independent clip.
Tape 3 Part 2
I won’t bore everyone with going through the steps I’ll just explain how this one was different.
1) I didn’t use the DV Start/Stop option, instead marked I/O separately leaving at least 2 frames between edits to make sure there was discontinuous timecode.
2) I also didn’t bother naming or logging at this point and left whatever ridiculous name the subclip process assigned.
3) The settings in the Media Manager were all set from the previous conversion hit OK [this time read the warnings which would have done nothing to correct the previous attempt].
4) 12 subclips went in and 12 new independent clips came out.
5) Once I had the new clips I logged and added descriptions and labels etc…
Although this sounds like a very convoluted process, and it is certainly much more difficult than it needs to be, by the fourth tape it was predictable and quite fast.
I will say though that because FCP consolidated any continuous clips without warning you really have to pay attention to detail. And it would be nice if we could use the log & capture window for this process so any descriptions, labels etc would be carried forward to the new clip.
Certainly not as easy to accomplish as it is in PPro but definitely possible. There might be more functionality that I just missed, if so please let me know. Anything that can be done to simplify this would be helpful.
Mac Pro. 5GB RAM. 1TB SATAII RAID 0. Mac OS X (10.4.8) FCP 5.1.2

When you delete the master clip from the browser, you aren't deleting the media file it referenced. So the subclips reference that same original captured QT movie, it's just not in your project.
It will work. try it. It's how I've been working for about 6 years now. I don't have problems with subclips at all doing anything I want to with them.
Subclips are nothing more than reference files that reference a portion of a master clip. A Master clip is nothing more than a reference to the media file that you're capturing... it's not the media it's a reference to it.
Subclips are how FCP was really intended to be logged I think. I don't like long captures at all, and would prefer to actually capture the way you did the first time... but because it takes longer, I usually don't have time to do things that way. However, if you do things that way, you can add descriptions etc. to the logged clip in the Log and Capture window, if that helps your workflow.
The responsivness you lack with your HDV camera is because it's HDV... HDV doesn't contain all of the pixels of every frame, so to see a single frame the computer has to do a lot of processing to show it to you. It's an MPEG stream, which uses whole frame information every 8 or 15 frames only. The rest of the frames are the difference between the frames only on the recorded tape, thus the work and slow response to HDV logging and capturing.
P2 on the other hand, would make ALL of this MUCH easier to deal with. For one thing, each take is an individual file, and it's an all I frame format so it's easier for the computer to deal with. It renders 8 times faster than HDV does... no "conforming" necessary.
Jerry

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hi,
i am capturing media from my camera from dv tape into FCP,
i log and capture the footage and all seems fine, i've done this hundreds of times before.
today however when i log and capture the file comes up as media offline (file logo with red line through it) in the browser window, i need to get this file done asap!! HELP!!
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i have a deck and i've tried coming from the deck, but its giving me fallout due to deck issues i have, so i'm coming from the camera. when i log and cap i get the file with the red line.
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i upgrade my SCCM 2012 RTM to SCCM 2012 SP1 yesterday. Today i started a recapture of my Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Base Image.
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Make sure that the dblink "using" clause is referencing a service name that uses a listener that is up and operational. There is no requirement that the listener be on port 1521 for Streams or for shipping logs.
Chapter 4 of the 2Day+ Data Replication and Integration manual has instructions for configuring downstream capture in Tutorial: Configuring Two-Database Replication with a Downstream Capture Process
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e17516/tdpii_repcont.htm#BABIJCDG

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I'm trying to import some P2 files from a HVX200 but when I click on the Log and Capture option in the menu, I have no Log and Capture window.
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Thanking in advance.
Don

Attn: Tom Wolsky.
I was disappointed to hear I could not capture by Log and Capture with the JVCE Everio HD7.
May I ask, Do you know any comparable camcorder with a 60 meg HD that would.
Or what would be the best method to capture from the JVC?
I have your book on order and looking forward to it.
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I think you are correct when you say "FCP cant control my camera". That model does not have a Firewire port, only USB and S-video and Composite ports. Final Cut requires a FW port to control log and capture functions on a camera.
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