The Heartbreak of Free Run (on tape)

The good think about jam sync/free run is that it’s easy to sync up multiple cameras. The bad thing (if it’s on tape) a nightmare to log. The “digitize across timecode breaks” had never worked on our Avids. So it took me a while to try that same setting on FCP. Wow - it looked like it was working. I had put an Out on the end of the tape and an In at the beginning. It began making clips for each TC break – great – with no red line through the clip. But when it finished and I exited the Log & Capture mode, all the clips went off-line. Are they really offline? So then I batch digitized, which it did, but it also seemed to make duplicate clips with duplicate media. Am I doubling the amount of space needed for these clips (possibly tripling)? Or is this funky workaround the only way to do it. What the....?

Your workflow should work. It's the way I work, and I don't have these sorts of problems. Shouldn't be a problem to see if the clips are there are not, just look at the scratch disk in the capture folder. Now I generally don't use free run, but my experience with dvx100's is that there will occasionally be a timecode break at a camera stop/start. Just to make sure we're understanding each other, do you have the following enabled in user preferences: abort capture on dropped frames and on timecode break make new clip?

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