Log and Transfer import wrong section.
When I import video using Log and Transfer sometimes the video imported it is not the same as the section I marked. What could this be?
Thank you for your response. The problem is not that I can't find the imported footage - the clips import into my project. I have a lot of footage (interviews) so I am picking out sections to import so as not to have to import entire hour-long clips. In Log and Transfer I mark in and out points and then import. Sometimes this works fine but sometimes the clip that I import does not match up with what I thought I had marked in L&T. So for example, in L&T I mark the In and Out around someone saying "XXX" but then once its imported its a different part of the interview "YYY". I though the problem was with the cursor (because it also sometimes acts wierd and won't go to the spot I click on or drag it too - others seem to have encountered this problem too. So I went through the video and wrote down the Ins and Outs for the sections I wanted and entered them in manually. Still, the sections imported did not match.
I hope this clarifies my question.
Thanks!
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Very often in the field with this camera the camera operator will delete clips from the camera card that they just don't like. That is the beauty of this camera. But, the still for that video file (located in the CLIP folder in the CONTENTS folder)...the still that you see when you are in the Log and Transfer Import window...is not deleted. So you will see the image, and the name, but the video file would have been deleted.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10235885�
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