Capturing footage without timecodes

I love editing with Final Cut Express, but capturing footage is a nightmare. The program keeps trying to locate timecode breaks on my Hi8 tape during capture, which results in me losing three to four seconds of footage from the beginning of each scene.
Is there a way to tell FCE to disregard timecodes? When I capture family movies, I'd like the importing to be as seamless as possible -- much like when capturing in iMovie. (I do know that I can capture in iMovie and edit in FCE, but if it's possible, I'd like to do all my work in FCE without relying on iMovie.)
Thanks to anyone who can help!

Thank you both very much for your quick replies! I tried switching my Easy Setup as suggested, and now my capturing seems to be working smoothly. Awesome!
Thanks so much again -- I really appreciate it!

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I am using a JVC HD110 U capturing in HDV at 720p 24. For some reason, even though the timecodes are consecutive, Final Cut Studio is registering timecode breaks. Some of these are on cuts, but others are in the middle of takes.
I know that if it were DV I could set the device to non-controllable and capture without timecode, but in HDV it won't let me set the device control to non-controllable.
Is there anyway that I can capture HDV and ignore the time code on the tape?
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Depending on that setting I either get the capture to stop in the middle or it continues and create a new clip. If I let it run, I loose a few seconds in the middle of the take. If I set the preroll to 1 sec, I can get the lost time down to 3 sec, but since it happens in the middle of takes not just at cuts, it is still a problem that I am loosing 3 seconds (2 while it searches for media and 1 for preroll).
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Timecode break while capturing footage

I am having a timecode problem. I have FCP 6, and running it on OS 10.4.11; I have it set so that all of the media is backed up on an
external drive, a GLYPH GT050Q. My camera is a sony dsr-pdx 10. I had no trouble capturing footage on my new laptop, a mac book pro
in my studio, that is running on Leopard. This is the second time I have had a problem transfering from this computer since I upgraded
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Well, I just did a test with my laptop, a power book g4 that runs on tiger, just as my tower does. I fear that if I upgrade my tower and power book g 4 to leopard, they will run more slowly. The new laptop I have is at another location, and it runs leopard.
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Who Wanted Scene-Detection On Captured Footage With No Timecode?

Did I dream this ?
I am sure that recently somebody had captured some video without timecode and wanted to know whether FCE could split it automatically into separate scenes.
My only suggestion was to split it manually which would take ages.
Last night I was looking at Tom's "FCE 4 Editing Workshop" and came across a slightly quicker and less laborious suggestion than mine.
Basically load the clip into the Viewer, play it and each time there is a change of scene hit the "M" key which will insert a marker.
At the end, the clip in the browser will be split into segments just as though "DV Start/Stop Detect" had been used.
Then simply select all the segments and press cmd U which will convert all the segments to subclips.
This morning I eagerly searched through the old questions to see if it had been answered and if not, to offer my/Tom's answer.
Of course I could not find any trace of the question !
Did I dream it ?
If you are that person (or know the thread) could you please put me out of my misery!

Hello Ian,
You are in luck tonight/whenever it is in your part of the word:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5148749&#5148749
Al

Premiere shows artifacts in screen-captured footage

Hi,
I get artifacts in my screen-captured footage (camstudio, lossless codec) that doesnt seem to appear on other peoples systems. tried different framerate-settings in camstudio, but always get premiere displaying it faulty.
Premiere also tells me that there are several empty frames in my footage, although AfterEffects and the win media player preview it without problems.
Export from AE gives the same results though..
I record at 1024x768 with 30fps and also use these settings for my project. i also set square pixels, progressive-scan, 30fps-timecode, videoforwindows and no compression (same prob w lossless codec)
im definitely a newbie so don't hesitate to point out the most obvious mistakes one could possibly make :) thanks for your time!

Well, in general this seems to work.
one more question though: I foolishly captured some footage at 200fps which I will hardly be able to shoot again. now when i let VDub revamp it to 30fps it just seems to play my 200fps footage at a 30fps rate,which is of course too slow. is that what the video>framerate option in VDub actually does, just stretch the footage?
I figured, i'd just take the original 200fps footage to AP and let it export to a 30fps clip. seems to work if i use the indeo compression.
recapitulating (for who ever cares):
- original capture: 1024x768 at up to 200fps...
- taking it to VirtualDub for recompression to huffyuv, to get rid of artifacts
- exporting from AP at 30fps with Indeo codec
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I am wondering if anybody who has been in my situation or know how i can resolve my problem can help me.
I have been using my Deck to upload all my footage, in standard def, and my JVC GY HD100 camera to upload all HD footage without any problems until the last week.
I have been shooting alot of footage (SD) that needs to be captured and also master copies to be burnt to MINIDV from my computer, and i can not locate any of the devices which i would like to use.
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Hi David
Thanks for your reply - i Should have stated that i do only use either the Cam or the Deck at any given time - i do not have more than one DV device connected to Mac at any one time.
Sorry about not including that piece of information. Have you any other ideas??? I dont want to reinstall the OS from the disc until i have tried everything else, and unless its absolutly necessary.

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I'm capturing footage and then play it back on the timeline. I notice that the audio is off sync, why is that? I use Sony DVCAM Deck to capture without altering the setting, in Final Cut Pro 6, and the audio became off sync. Any solution?
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I captured canon hv20 by firewire to my computer with adobe premiere elements 11. After capture, I have cutted clip three times. Then I want to export my computer because of I watch on my 46 inches full hd lcd television. If I want to keep the quality of the original captured footage (from the tapes), what format should I? I choosen mpeg 1440x1080i 24, it alerts error. Or i chosee avchd 1920x1080p, then it is too larger than captured scenes. I think it is 20000MB but captured scened (without cut) only 11.2 gb. Please help me. Thanks very much.

YCLCS
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MPEG
using Presets = MPEG2 1440 x 1080i25, did you make any changes in the settings under the Advanced Button/Video Tab of the preset?
When you look at the settings in the Export Settings dialog for the MPEG 1440 x 1080i25 preset, you will see the default bitrate settings
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The program's export bitrate may be higher than that of your source media, resulting in the increased file size. You can check out the bitrate, using the properties readout from a free program such a MediaInfo
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
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I've been seeing this error around for a while with no solutions it seems, I'm hoping I just missed something obvious:
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[...]\[...]\src\timecode.cpp-995
then crashes. When I say try to capture I mean even opening the capture window causes this.
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I want to detect the video capture devices, without installing the JMF.
I had included the jmf (windows version) in lib path in netbeans ide. I am able to detect the audio capture device. But unable to detect the video capture devices. But if I install the JMF, I am able to detect the Video Capture devices in My system. Can anyone help me?
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