Capture with FCP - Edit on Avid

I have been asked by a friend if I can digitise (via FCP) 6 hours of DVCam for them to edit in Avid - they have asked for me to supply it as OMFI files. Now the only reference I can find in the 'Export' option is for Audio export as OMF. Surely OMFI is a file exchange format and not a video file. Can anyone fill in the blank spaces for me please?

You cannot capture footage as OMFI with FCP. FCP captures as Quicktime. You cannot convert the footage to OMFI...only Avid can do that. Well, now Automatic Duck does that too, as mentioned:
http://automaticduck.com/products/pefcp/
"New in this release you can export Avid MXF media that connects to your exported AAF file, write media that is external to the OMF or AAF file avoiding file size limits as well as translate many effects from Final Cut Pro to your Avid or Quantel Generation Q system."
Is this true Wes?
Shane

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Is this possible? Do I have to transcode or something?
Any help/tips appreciated!

Yeah, I believe importing like that into an Avid doesn't carry over time code nor reel information. This is why it is very important to capture footage with the system you intend to edit it on.
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Red interference during capture with FCP 5.1.4

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I would be EXTREMELY for any help anyone can give me. Thanks in advance.

This is happening to me today as well. Has it got something to do with 10.6.7 I have just updated and now I seem to be having the same problem
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Quality capturing with FCP & an analog converter?

i am making VHS(PAL) -> DVD transfers using a Canopus ADVC110 analog converter with iBook G4 with Tiger. previously i was using iMovie HD in capturing which worked fine and gave me good quality DV files, but since i needed more editing possibilities i turned to FCP. i was surprised to find out that it looks like i cannot maintain the quality nowhere near where i've used to since FCP (i have FCP 4 only unfortuntely) only produces me small-sized Quicktime Movie files with mediocre quality compared to the huge but good-looking DV files i got with iMovie. the quality of these is simply way too low for me. and i cannot use iMovie HD for capturing and then import the files to FCP because FCP 4 doesn't understand iMovie HD projects. now am i just being stupid and missing something with the FCP settings here? or is updating my FCP a solution?
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A few points: [cliff notes version: get a monitor]
1. Without a TV (aka NTSC/PAL Video Monitor) to see your footage sent out via Firewire, you have no way of know what your footage looks like. QT may do a better job of representing DV stream files, but it in no way means they are of higher quality.
2. Capturing in Final Cut Pro IS computationally intensive. Here's why. DV stream, (the stuff iMovie uses) is a direct write out of the muxed (mixed audio & video) as it is written on the tape by your camera. FCP (or more accurately Quicktime) takes that Muxed stream and separates the audio and video into individual streams IN REAL TIME. If the computer can not keep up, dropped frames or corrupted files are the result.
3. This demuxing does not change the QUALITY of the video. The file started as ones and zeros and remains as ones and zeros. There is nothing to convert at this point - it still is a direct digital transfer - just pulling apart the strings.
4. Playing these more complex Quicktime files places greater demands on your system than iMovie's DV stream.
5. The people who wrote FCP recognized that displaying a high data rate file on a limited computing platform may overwhelm that platform. So, in response, they designed FCP to create a low resolution proxy for the display.
6. Why do this? Now listen closely .... because FCP is designed as a Professional application and professionals (or serious dilettantes) will invest in the proper equipment to monitor the audio and video components of their work This is how a SOFTWARE based editing solution can compete with very, very expensive hardware based systems. FCP is quite scalable. It will run on the minimum configurations but really works much better with more horsepower.
Now, the limited ram, video speed, hard drive capacity and frontside bus speed of your computer is being tested by this process and is not holding up well. A second hard drive to be a dedicated media drive will help. More RAM will help. A faster CPU will help. A machine that is configured from the beginning to run these kind of applications will help.
I'm not trying to be mean here, just trying to explain the complexity of the situation. I really do hold the Apple marketing people responsible for over selling the program. It is NOT rocket science, but does demand a much greater understanding of technology than most people I know to able to actually grasp.
good luck,
x
[cliff notes version redoux: get a monitor]

SONY HC1 CANNOT CAPTURE WITH FCP 6.0

HELP PLEASE!!
This problem is driving me mental.
I have a Sony HDR HC1. I've been shooting in DV PAL 4:3 before and had no problems at all.
It's well past time when i should be shooting in HDV 16:9. I have changed the settings on the video camera to HDV, 16:9, including in playback mode.
No matter what settings i put in FCP i cannot get it to capture??? I just always get the message that says "Device is not connected or capture preset is not set up correctly. You may still log offline clips. This might also happen if you play DV footage in an HDV device."
Please can someone in the know come up with some suggestions? I'd be so grateful.
TIA! Regards.

I think you have to change a setting in your camera (I have an HC7 which is just a later version of yours). It's still playing back in DV so final cut isn't recognizing it as HDV. set your camera in playback mode>hit p menu>menu> scroll through to VCR HDV/DV. Unplug your fire wire cable. On your screen you'll have 3 choices: Auto, HDV, DV. Push HDV. (auto doesn't seem to work) Get out of the menus. Camera will now play back in HDV mode. Hook up your firewire cable again. Make sure your Easy set up in FCP matches the camera (I'm not sure what pal setting are). Hopefully, you'll be good to go.
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Video files captured with FCP 7 appear to be text files in the finder!

I've recently updated to FCP Studio 3 and am having a strange problem with HDV video that I have captured. The video shows up in the browser and plays in the timeline just fine, but I am unable to send any footage to Motion. I get an error saying that the file is missing. I cant even import directly from within Motion because the video files aren't even visible to the program! I am also unable to use any of the video files in drop zones in Master Templates in FCP. If I navigate to my footage in the finder, the files appear as text files. Yet if i double click on one, it opens in Quicktime and plays. This happens whether I capture video with the apple intermediate codec or any of the new Pro Res codecs.
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See this link:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2108336&tstart=90
Another work around: after capturing in Pro Res, when you look at your clips in the browser, when you label them add .mov to the end of the label. Then modify>rename>file to match clip. This will convert file on your scratch disc from tesxt file to .mov QT file which you can then use in other applications.
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Better capture with FCP than iMovie?

Hi,
I have an ADVC-100 and wish to archive some old VHS and S-VHS tapes. I'm planning to to that in iMovie HD. However, would I be getting bettter quality if I used FCP instead?
Any input on how to get the best quality out of old VHS tapes would be greatly appreciated. The tapes are in PAL, and as they are only intended for the computer screen, I'm keeping them in PAL. Also, what about de-interlacing? Is that something I should be concerned with during capture? What's the deal there?
Thanks,
Patrick

Since the ADVC-300 is relatively new product, you might not be able to find much of a deal yet. I have seen several stand alone TBCs on ebay though ... and they seem to be going fairly cheap these days.
I can't say much about iMovie. I've never used it, but from what I understand, it captures DV video as a "DV Stream." I don't know if any additional compression is added during that process.
I do know that capturing DV footage in FCP is basically just a data transfer and no additional compression is added.
-DH

Will FCP capture with this?

will a Sony GV-D300 Video walkman capture with FCP on leopard?
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I've had similar problems with short duration (less than 10 mins) DVDs from HDV from a JVC camera and H264 from Canon HD DSLR edited in Apple ProRes SQ.
After much mucking about with settings, and I'm not absolutely sure why this works I found the best results were obtained by first of Exporting a Quicktime from FCP with same settings.
Bring this version into Compressor, use the "DVD Best Quality 90 mins" setting but change the settings to "One Pass VBR Best". You can raise the "Average bit rate" slightly but don't play with the maximum bit rate, this can cause problems with some DVD players, and not necessarily the one you are using for testing.
Get yourself some re-writeable DVD-RWs for testing.
For me the results of using these settings on short duration DVD productions are enormous, the 2 Pass created results comparable to VHS quality. It was more like cooking and trying different herbs and spices to flavour the meal. Don't get me started on compression and delivery for the web...

Avid Mojo with FCP

Hi,
I work for a broadcaster which predominantly uses Avid products on PC's.
I've managed to buck the trend and have ordered a 17" MacBook Pro to use with FCP (and possibly Avid DV Express).
I will have access to an Avid Mojo to import my Beta SX rushes, has anyone had any experience of using this with a mac before? Will it even work?
Thanks for any assistance...
Mac Mini, G4 iBook, G4 Quicksilver, G3 Powermac Mac OS X (10.4.10)

John
Sorry to do so much avid stuff in this forum but the avid site, (like many FCPro v Avid issues) is much less easy to use. IMHO
I also run avid and FC. The mojo is of no use to FC ( I'm happy to be corrected on this point). But there are a few other Avid things you need to be aware of.
1. the mojo needs its own firewire bus. you cant have drives on the same bus as the mojo. The power book only has one firewire bus, several connectors, but one bus. I think the mac book pro is the same. This means you can either have the mojo or material drives connected to the laptop. Not both. (it will drop every other frame on record or playback). I even bought a PCIMCA firewire card for the powerbook but this still uses the same bus.
I understand that you can get a PCIe Sata card for the Macbook pro which can be used to run sata raid drives leaving the firewire to the mojo.
2. Avid say you must turn off software update. This is true as the latest qt has caused problems for avid. The way I run my G5 and MacPro desktop is to have FCStudio on the main hard drive and a second hard drive which is a boot drive loaded with the avid. This is kept for avid only. I then have a pcie firewire card to run the mojo so disks go on the built in firewire. That works fine but I have now upgraded to external sata raid drives so thet the firewire problem goes away.
3. You may know this but only the mojosdi has sdi in/out. the light grey MOJO does not.
I tend to use the avid only for jobs which have been started on an avid. Then I copy the digitised rushes to my system and send the pjoject or an avb bin back to the main system for output etc.
Hope that helps avoid some of the costs I needlessly incurred.
John

Format Hard Drive for Capture w/ FCP and use on PC?

Can someone tell me how I can format a hard drive that will ultimately be used by a client with only PC's -- so that I can capture video on my Mac using FCP?
In the past, I thought FCP broke up captured video into 2 GB segments when a hard drive was formatted for MS-DOS. But tonight I formatted my client's external hd using Disk Utility and the drive wasn't even available under system settings on FCP.
I'm really not at all PC-savvy anymore...can someone tell me if there is way to do this?
If it matters, I'm capturing home video from several sources: Canopus ADVC-300, and mini-DV tapes using a Sony camcorder.
Thanks!
Jenny

Thank you so much. The NTFS-3G did the trick. I have one more dumb question (again...I'm completely PC-illiterate). Would .dv be the best format for me to capture video again for a client who is a home user of a PC? I was planning to capture with FCP (in .mov format) -- but perhaps for ease of use for the client, I should use Toast or iMovie and capture in .dv?
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Partitioning a MyBook to use with fcp... can it be Mac Extended and FAT32?

Hi, I'm a film student and a little while ago I just bought a MyBook 1T external hard drive (USB only).
I'm looking into reformatting my hard drive because when capturing with fcp (straight to the hard drive) I keep getting an error at around 9 minutes.
I did some research and found out that its because its formatted to FAT32 instead of Mac Extended.
However, I do a lot of work with PC's and transferring files on my hard drive and I read that once formatted to Mac Extended my hard drive would not work on a PC.
I was wondering if I partitioned my MyBook would I be able to make one part Mac Extended (for my capture scratch files) and one part FAT32 (that I could use like a regular hard drive for files between Mac and PC)?
Also just to be clear once the hard drive is Mac Extended I can still keep other files besides capture scratch files in that portion of the hard drive, it's just I can't transfer those particular files to PC. (Some of the website forums I read made me more confused haha)
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Kyle

@ nick would that let me capture my footage to my hard drive without having to babysit
NTFS does not have the file size limit silliness that FAT has so you should be OK in theory.
Run a couple of test captures and see what you think.
USB is generally not a good interface for video as it delivers data in bursts. You need a constant stream as provided by FireWire or SATA drives. If you are working with low bandwidth video codecs such as DV, you might get away with it for a while.

Can I capture with Final Cut Pro and edit in Premiere Pro?

Since it appears that Premiere has issues with capture - at least for me but as I see it for others as well - and that I can capture with iMovie, can I consider using Final Cut Pro for capture - then cross to Adobe Premiere and the suite for editing, finalizing ? Or is there a problem to copy the shots/files from one program to the other (would they remain identified clearly so I could just import shots into Premiere afterward ?)
Thanks
Rob

Hi Rob,
When you capture HDV in FCP it creates a specific Apple HDV codec. This is a codec that is only available if FCP, Motion or Compressor is installed.
The two workarounds would be to use Premiere Pro on the Mac with one of the above mentioned apps installed on the same system or convert to a codec that can be read in Premiere.
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Peter Garaway
Adobe
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Does email interfere with a FCP editing system?

Old school system setup prohibited email or even internet on a video edit system partition. For example, my Avid DS system specified NO external connections, no internet, no email, no local network, nothing. Avid didn't even want a Jazz drive connected.
Is this still the practice on Final Cut Pro systems? I have always had email and net on my FCP partition, but I can't say it has ever been totally stable.
What is common practice now? Does anyone have trouble from this stuff today

Nope...works fine.
I can e-mail, surf the web and use iChat on my editing system.
I don't, as I have a laptop that I use for this, but when I was without one for a week, I did that all the time.
No problems. Avid used to have probelms, and had to be set up VERY SPECIFICALLY. And Avid DS was the worse. Now you can use e-mail with Avids, the later models.
And it has never been a problem with FCP.
Shane

I can capture with iMovie 6, but not with FCP 6.0 ('no data from device')

I didn't have any problem with FCP 5, but am getting nowhere with FCP 6 using the same settings (I think). FCP seems to see the camcorder, but can't control it and, even if I manually start the camera, reports 'no data from device' when I do a 'Capture Now'. Device control isn't critical, but I'd sure like to find out why it doesn't see the data stream from the camera (Sony HDR-HC7 / FW400). I must be missing a setting some place, but sure can't find it. On the other hand, I have full device control and zero dropout capture with iMovie (exact same hardware configuration). Any ideas?

Wolfgang Matzl wrote:
canopus works fine, as well as all other devices.
i have tons of tapes and tried a few, none worked.
i tried to capture on both my new imac and my mbpro, no way.
but now i'm sure there is something wrong with the sony handycam, i tried to import with my old final cut studio, and it's not possible, also. fc pro says: waiting for timecode.
so i'm confused now. does the sony dcr-trv not send a timecode? maybe, and this will explain the troubles. but on the other hand i imported successfully some footage with exact this device.
maybe i used the canopus then to correct the timebase, i can't remember how i did it. but this would mean i have to accept loss of quality, since i have to connect the sony with s-vhs with the canopus and convert it.
right now i'm importing a tape with imovie and will have a look how the result is, but as far as i remember, the audio has to be re-rendered when importing in fcpx…
My finger is pointing to a Timecode issue.
Is timecode enabled in the camera?
Is it continuous on the tape?
Al

DVD authoring after editing project with FCP X

FCP X has extremely limited DVD authoring options within it. Can't put more than one short movie on a disc, only two menu templates to choose from, etc. So my question is what do I use to author a DVD after editing projects with FCP X? I know I need to use Compressor to set chapter points, etc., but what do I use to build the DVD menu and burn the DVD? I certainly hope I am not limited to iDVD only, which is not really a pro application, and I gather that DVD Studio Pro is no longer being sold. Amazingly, I asked this question at a One-to-One session at an Apple Store and the guy there suggested Adobe Encore ... I was totally shocked! Does anyone have an answer to all this?

Encore is very good, but you have to buy PPro to get it, you could look on eBay for a copy of DVDSP. It does look like Apple will not be offering a Pro Level DVD authoring package anymore, it's a shame as DVDSP works very well still and they could have just offered it as a standalone.

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