FCE Capture Window

I am using FCE HD 3.5.1 and when I view material in the capture window I can't hear any sound. I prefer to clip capture rather than capture all my rushes and doing this without sound is a pain.
This must be a simple user error...

FCE does not play the audio through the Mac's speakers or audio out during capture. It has always been this way. If you really need to monitor the audio during capture you will have to connect headphones or external speakers to your camera's a/v (audio) out. The audio is captured with the video, it's just not played out during capture.

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When I capture any video into FCE4, if I have Safari open on my other monitor, FCE capture window goes red and I am unable to view footage being imported. Exit out of Safari and the capture window appears. Sometimes, only half the window is red (diagonally)!!
Is there any software fix for this or does it mean anything else?
Thanks in advance
Matt

Have just checked with Firefox and it doesn't happen!! :-))
I only have one user on this mac and that's me.
My wife and two sons rarely use this machine as I use it for work.
Maybe I should have a second user just to check things like this out!
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FCE HD Crashes when trying to open "capture" window.

The subject line says it all.... I open FCE HD, try to open the capture window (either by shortcut or by menu) I get the "Initializing Capture" and boom, FCE closes down. It's not even the kind of crash that gives me a dialog box with an opportunity to report the crash to Apple.
I haven't used FCE since I upgraded to Tiger...could that be it?
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See this article: it may be all you need:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
I did the following:
removed:
system library:preferences: anything with Quicktime in name
system library:quicktime: I discarded all of these components, but then had to reinstall them from their various install disks (FCE, LiveType, etc.); I'd save them in another folder and see what shows up after a Quicktime reinstallation, and put back the ones which QT didn't install itself. After install, if everything works, then you've got a good set; if something still is awry, try putting the old, pre-install components back one at a time until everything works. (fingers crossed).
user library:preference: anything with Quicktime in the name
Applications: quicktime player
This is a not a guaranteed comprehensive list: I'm doing it from memory and searching around my system for quicktime system files. The diciest part would be the "components" some of which are part of the quicktime installation, some of which come from other applications.
Then I downloaded the latest Quicktime from the quicktime area and installed it.
Before you mess with this, do a back up of your system so you don't wind up with something which doesn't work at all.
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When i select file/capture, i am only given a small dialog box for naming the file, then it immediately starts to "capture now" and obviously triggers the playhead on the camera. I can't find anything in the preferences that would seem to control the capture window (which i dont even see at all)...if i hit esc to halt the "capture now" then it just takes me back to the browser/etc windows.
maybe I am missing something obvious? or maybe this is a compatibility issue?
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trace

Let's start with what format you're working in. If you're using HDV, that's the way the application works.

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One observation, you have a small hard drive (100GB) and even though you appear to have 59GB free, that's actually not a lot of space. One hour of DV consumes about 13GB and during capture the Mac temporarily needs nearly 2x that space, which means your system is using the 'inner' cylinders of the hard drive, where performance slows down; this could explain your dropped frames problem. Can you move some stuff off your system HD onto your G-RAID (say, your iPhoto and iTunes libraries if you are using those apps, they often take a lot of disk space)?

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I have my Canon HV20 connected properly, but when I click on Capture on FCE 4.0, I am simply asked to name the file but I don't see the Capture window that is supposed to open, as all the tutorials show, including on this Adobe site and Lynda. I therefore can't pilot the camera from FCE and capture from my HD tape.
I must add that I have chosen HD in Easy Setup and Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i50, as I am in France and presumably recording in PAL.
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So I tried something else: I decided not to start the playback on the camcorder and to let FCE manage that. So I clicked 'Capture' in the FCE File menu, and then was prompted to name the capture, and then I saw the camcorder start it's playback, but NO view of what is being captured shown in FCE, only a black window, with this at the bottom: "CUEING TAPE, press esc. to stop". Meanwhile, the video is playing on fine on the camcorder screen. At the end of the tape, close to 60 minutes later, nothing has been captured whatsoever. No trace of the file that I had named after clicking on 'Capture'. No capture at all, in effect.
So this is where I stand and I do hope you can help. Very grateful in advance.
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Why is there no capture window when I capture?

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http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/finalcutexpress/2007/finalcutexpresstutorial_capturefromtaper640-10cie.mov
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Capture Window difference between DV and HDV

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I was using a JVC standard def camera and used DV-PAL in easy set up. The capture window was as per the manual (timecodes, reel, device status and controls). All was hunky dory.
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SCCM 2012 R2: Build and Capture - Windows 8.1 prompting for network

I have upgraded my SCCM 2012 SP1 (CU2) to SCCM 2012 R2 and I am attempting to Build and Capture Windows 8.1 Enterprise. Everything is perfect except for the OS prompting for a network selection during the process, if I click "next" on that screen
the Capture finishes without incident. The same is true of the Deploy as well...
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Hi LillonelC
Can you point out how and where to do this?
When capturing with MDT 2013 on VMware I do not see this, naturaly, since the "machine" only has one network adapter.
But when deploying to a Laptop I get the wireless Setup screen...
On beforehand Thank You!
With kind regards
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I did the same for 64-bit and used the 64-bit version.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<OOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
<HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
<HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
<HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen>
</OOBE>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://SERVERNAME/e$/osimages/win_8.1_x86/sources/install.wim#Windows 8.1 Enterprise" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<OOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
<HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
<HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
<HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen>
</OOBE>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://SERVERNAME/e$/osimages/win_8.1_x64/sources/install.wim#Windows 8.1 Enterprise" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>
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Thanks
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Yes i did read your post. And please do not write in capital letters, that is considered shouting.
But there are people that want to use the capture window for the wrong reasons. Hence my explanation.
Hold shift+alt while opening Premiere that resets some features.
See if that will help.
Bob: the capture window is under File and Window. Shortcut is F5.

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