Capture now limitations (time lapse)

I need to capture 24hr long video segments, but it seems that FCP may limit its capture now settings (I tried my first test run and it didn't save the clip). I am using a digital camcorder and the capture now setting on FCP. I have changed the capture preset to only capture 3 frames per second and I am capturing in a compressed format. Any help on how to make this happen?

Boy, capturing a 24 hour long clip - that's pretty intense. I would suggest capturing it in smaller chunks, simply to make it more manageable.
If that isn't an option, you should be able to capture for whatever length of time you want - as long as you have enough memory, of course.
What you should need to do is choose File, User Preferences. Then, under the Scratch Disk tab, there should be a line at the bottom of the window that says Limit Capture Now To. If the box is checked next to it, FCP will only let you capture that length of time. If the box is unchecked, you should be able to capture however long you want.
It's definitely possible there are other factors. I'm not a FCP wizard. But a hint to getting good responses in this forum is to list, in detail, what system you are working on and what version of FCP you are using. If your question is about cameras and other hardware, list the specs for those as well.
Hope some of this helps. Good luck.
jesse.

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In a creative cow podcast the author mentions that if you capture in FCP for more than 30 minutes, your audio and video can go out of sync, and recommends limiting capture now to 10 minutes.
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Thanks!

I'm having similar problems although I never used to. But note:
I'm having sync drift problems with material shot with and capture from Sony DV Cam devices. Different clips have different degrees of drift from 1 to 12 frames.
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Capture Now - stops at 31min but system is set to stop at 63min! (?)

Folks, this one is puzzling me so I would appreciate any suggestions.
I have "Capture Now" limited to 63 minutes, however, FCP stops capturing around 31mins with the message that it has reached the limit set by the user! I tried with two different tapes with the same result. Have quit FCP and restarted with the same results.
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Thanks in advance,
Ismenio

Hi Jerry (and anyone interested in this). I've been trying to troubleshoot this for days now and came to a conclusion: I think the problem is with a couple of tapes!
I checked the capture now settings, as Jerry mentioned, both for time and size and everything looked fine. Size wasn't even checked but I checked it and increased the size anyway, on and off, but getting the same results: the capture always stops at around 31 minutes.
Then I started capturing other tapes (same brand, recorded in the same camera (Canon HV30)) and no problems there! Oh well! I just manually "glued" the two clips for the same tape that I had to manually adjust so as to capture the rest of the 30min of footage (sorry, don't know the right term!)
Weird isn't it? It's not like at the 31min mark a scene changes or there was a pause in the filming
Thanks again for your help Jerry.
Best regards,
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How to mix time lapse with still images and imported movies ?

Hello
I have been shooting photos (time lapse with Camera Pro) and movies with a Nokia N8 and would love to use iMovie to mount all that.
Unfortunately, for the time lapse I cannot get the duration of the photos to 0.03s, it just won't accept it. I have been looking around the forum and could only find sort of solutions when you have a transition or effect on the pictures but not when they are just fit to the screen...
So now the time lapse looks much slower and broken than the movie itself... and it does not look nice.
Another way would be to make the time lapse with QT Pro and then import it but I am affraid I am loosing quality in the process.
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Thank you in advance for any helpful answer.
Petri
Mac OS 10.6.8
iMovie : 9.0.4

Able, Jim,
thanks a lot, both solutions work just fine.
Take the first image, adjust the Effects, copy it, select the other images and past attributes
and
just put all images together, make a new sequence and use that first sequence as nested sequence and put the effects on that

Current Time code field and "Capture Now has reached the end of tape......"

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Yeah, I was just thinking about that. I'm doing this on an iMac.
What's going on with Capture Now? I know staying digital would be best. But I'm kinda doing this project to give myself some hands-on time with FCP to get familiar with it. I'd like to capture this stuff through the Log And Capture GUI if I can. Sooner or later, I'll need to do it with something else (possibly an old VHS tape) where I won't have the option of staying digital.
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"Waiting for time code" while Capture Now

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I've accomplished the task several times with my Sony Digital-8 camera. Since the tape is analog there's no timecode (which iMovie doesn't look for) and you must use the DV Converter setting in easy setup. I think you're right about the on-screen transport controls: you won't have them. (FCE thinks it's just listening to a converter box -- same as if you connected a VCR to the D8's analog ports, assuming the 460 offers that feature.) Try a reboot to clear things out. Turn on the camera then start FCE and check the Easy Setup settings. Use Capture Now and press the 'play' button on the camcorder.

Time Lapse capture within Final Cut

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to do live capture and time lapse with final cut. For example, if I had my camera plugged into my computer, is it possible to use final cut or something to capture the footage and set an interval time. Hope there is.
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Sorry, there isn't.
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Capture Time Lapse from Canon HF100

I just bought a Canon Vixia HF100 camcorder. I want to connect it to my Macbook and record some time lapse footage in iMovie HD 6.
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Any tips for editing an HDV time lapse?

I have done some extensive Googling on time lapse and understand the limitations of video as compared to film, and how most professional time lapsers use still cameras. Be that as it may, I am just having some fun with my new HDV camera and its built in time lapse/interval record feature.
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Hello.
Is it 15 frames long or 17?
Just wondered as it might make sense if it was 15, as that is the GOP length for HDV, meaning that perhaps the camera records the pictures this way to ensure that you will have a complete 'i' frame... just a thought...
Lol! i got to laugh... my girl friend just read over my shoulder (i'm on my laptop), at an angle, and thought my first line was - 'Are you 15 years old or 17?'... oh dear... she now thinks i'm a chat-room stalker.

Seeking advise on techniques for making a time-lapse movie

Hi, This isn't technically a question having to do with FCE directly, but it seems like a good place to ask. I need to make a time-lapse movie showing the changing daylight on a fixed point from dawn until dusk. It will be edited in FCE, but I have no idea of how many seconds I should shoot at a time, and at what intervals I should shoot them. Or.... would there be any advantage to shooting still photos and then importing them into FCE?
Can you suggest any resources which I could read on the subject?
Thank, Bob

Lets say you are doing this shoot at equinox (ie 12 hrs between sunrise and sunset).
Since most cameras do not hold storage media that can hold 12 hours of media in one file, you need to either use an intervalometer setting on the cam (allowing for incremental recording) or record to an external drive that CAN hold 12 hrs of media.
The approach one takes depends upon the recording limitations. If using external storage that can record the full length, it's just a matter of bringing in the file and speeding it up to whatever makes sense to your needs.
If you are going to use an incremental capture approach, then you really do need to know what will be the speed of the final clip. Is this thing going to play back at real time? 2x, 10x, 100x? Or, asked another way, how long do you want it to run? 30 sec, 1 min, 5 min, 20 min, etc?
Once you know that, it's really simple math to figure out.
Video (in NTSC land) runs at 30 frames per second (29.97 if we are being precise).
This means if you were to record it in real time you'd require 1,296,000 frames
12 hrs x (60 min per hr) x (60 sec per min) x (30 frames per sec).
If you want it to play 100x faster, you would need 12,960 frames. This can be accomplished by recording every 100th possible frame (that is, snapping an image every 3 1/3 seconds)
Or, if you work it backwards - thinking that you'd like to compress 12 hrs to 12 minutes, you'd need to acquire one frame every 2 seconds. (This yields a 60x increase in speed.)
Have fun.
x

Time Lapse

Hi Gang
Without using any special setting on my DVX100B, I was simply going to let the camera roll for about an hour to film the set up and break down of a set.
During editing, increase the speed. Are there more effective ways to accomplish this? I believe time-lapse only captures a limited number of frames.
Does it really matter which method is employed?
Thanx
Mike
http://vimeo.com/7340608

Hi,
in principal there is no difference between letting a camera roll for an hour, or taking a series of stills over time (1 frame every 2-5 secs for example) and then gluing them together. Both are recording an event over a period of time and then compressing that timeframe afterwards, but you're right, the latter method does not capture all the action.
In practise though there is a world of difference in what you can achieve with the different methods. with the camera roll method (normally done with video cameras) you are obviously limited to the recording time of your camera, its recording method, and its photographic capabilities (shutter speed, image quality, dof etc). With stills timelapse (normally done with stills cameras) you potentially have a much more extended range of tools, more choice of lenses, exposure times, dof etc, and your recording time can be much, much longer.
In post, your video camera has the advantage of instantly being in the same format as the rest of your footage, but has the disadvantage of long clips, fixed resolutions (limiting repositions, blowups etc) looks a bit video, whereas with stills timelapses, once youve got your workflow sorted, you can be working with smaller files and get creative with pans and scans in motion and have beautiful filmic shots.
In your case (and depending on your aspirations for the project) on set, if you can afford to be without your video camera for an hour or so I would probably just let the camera roll as a quick and dirty one shot hit, speeding the clip up afterwards. But if you want to go for quality and get creative, start exploring the world of timelapses - heres a link to get you going
http://timescapes.org/phpBB3/index.php
and heres a good example of the type of quality achievable with the stills method,
http://vimeo.com/22439234
have fun
Andy

DV speed, and time lapse question

Hi Forum....your insight and advise on the problems with understanding film rates, etc, is boggling my brain! I'm spending tim in Ken Stone's and Adam Witt's sites, and reading more....and starting to understand a few things about what I'm dealing with. I'm still not sure how to apply them, however. I have another mini-project I need to do that I'll try out some of these techniques.
Anywy, I see that on some of the capture settings, it only allows X amount of time in the presets for "capture now"....(30min). Is this default for a reason? WIll changing it to "60 minutes" have any consequenses?
I was thinking of trying to do a faked time lapse....but am not sure if it will work...and just wanted to know if anyone has done this? I want to video the sunset and lights of our theater coming on, a couple hours of tape, and speed it up so it looks like time lapse.
Can it be done, as my mind thinks it can by just capturing as "capture now" getting the footage into the view and using speeding it up using the speed control? Will it speed it up enough? Just wondering.
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Capture now set to 60min works. But make sure that you are not on UNCONTROLLED DEVICE. Make sure you have Firewire DV or Firewire Basic. That will ensure you ingest timecode.
Jim...Recently I STUPIDLY told the DP I wanted time of day code. Boneheaded me. So when I went to log and capture I found that they didn't give me enough pre-roll to allow for logging and capturing. SO what I did is pre-label the clip by looking at what it was, then hitting CAPTURE NOW. The TC break stopped the tape. I hated doing it, but was forced to.
The next shoot I said NO TIME OF DAY! Not like I was going to synce the 3 cameras up in post anyway...sheesh.
Shane

Does Photoshop/Premiere Elements 13 have a "stop motion" or time lapse feature?

Does Photoshop Elements 13 have a "stop motion" or time lapse feature? I have been told that feature was removed from Premiere Elements 13. I want to make a time lapse movie using photos I have taken. What Adobe software is capable of this today?
If so where can I find a tutorial?

Duplicate question deleted, now that this one has been moved
Version 13 no longer captures from a tape camera
http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/kb/removed-features-formats-elements.html
$10 DV and HDV for Mac Firewire capture http://www.lifeflix.com/

I want to do a time lapse

Is the frame speed-up limited to 2000%? How can i do an 8 hour time lapse into 20 or 30 seconds. I have searched the forum over and over and also searched google.. This is my last resort.
Thanks for any help.

Hi
So You got 8 hours raw material ?
And You want to squees it into 20 or 30 seconds
Well one way is to do as You already started out with increasing speed to 200% (is this max ?)
Then save/export out as a QuickTime full quality .mov file (now 4hours)
start with this and re-do (Save out and Import into a new project)
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Done
But may be there are better solutions to this
AND to do this You NEED
• Lot's of hard disk space (13.5Gb/hour material)
• Lot's of time AND STAMINA
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Yours Bengt W

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