Captured clip length or duration inaccurate

I can't figure out what's happening but I've captured a projected as uncompressed 8-bit (but I've tried others as well) and for some reason the initial clip duration is 80 minutes and works fine in QT but in FCP it shows up as 59 seconds. I can not get it to play anything past the initial 59 seconds. QT sees everything but FCP can't. I've recaptured 6 times changing variables trying to overcome this issue. I've captured another project and it works without a hitch, it's only capturing this project that reproduces this error. The log and capture works as advertised, everything appears normal. Once the capture is finished I double click or drag to the timeline and I get 59 seconds... Open it in QT, all 80 minutes.
Any ideas? This is really frustrating... Thanks.
Greg

Thanks a bunch. Saved suspect file as QT reference file per your instructions, reimported to FCP, I can see all 80 minutes. Such an easy fix for something that caused me so much grief! Thanks again.
- Greg

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log and capture seems to arbitrarily determine the clip lengths for a longer piece of footage. each clip within a longer clips seems to vary between 2 seconds to 30 seconds. is there a way to make the clip length more uniform?
thanks

I do not understand. Please describe your workflow in more detail. What format material are you working with, etc.

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I am trying to make an animated movie. How can I make all my clip lengths, several hundred, the same length in one go? eg 0.1 of a second.

oldscotsbloke
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Are these clips - videos or stills? For now I will assume stills.
For now I will assume that you are set up for NTSC (30 frames per second) and not PAL (25 frames per second).
If you want all clips with duration of 0.1 second
a. import, take to Expert workspace Timeline, select all, right click anywhere in the selection, select Time Stretch, and set the Time Stretch dialog Duration field to 0.1 second which would be 3 frames. So you set the timecode Duration readout in the Time Stretch dialog to 00;00;00;03 (hours;minutes;seconds;frames).
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Then AFTERWARD all stills imported into the program will have a duration of 3 seconds until you go back to preferences and change the setting.
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http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/07/pe-time-lapse-video-basics.html
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/08/pe-numbered-stills-in-time-lapse-and.html
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If you have two clips of 1 second, the total duration is 2 seconds. If you introduce a 10-frame transition, it reduces BOTH clips by 10 frames each, not 5 frames each. The total duration is now 1 second 15 frames.
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If you take ten frames from the end of clip one, and ten frames from the beginning of clip two, that transition takes 20 frames.
No, you take the last 10 frames from clip one and play at the same time as the first 10 frames of clip two. At the beginning of the 10 frame transition you can see only clip 1 and at the end only clip 2.
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