Offline Recapturing???

Question

Here is my situation... I captured my footage at an offline quality. The tapes were recorded to free run timecode and I captured each tape with an In point at the beginning of the tape and an Out point at the end. Final Cut creates a new clip at each timecode break so for each tape, I have multiple clips.
Well, I edited the project at JPEG quality and when I was done I created an offline project to recapture at full quality. I batch captured all offline clips and was not able to capture all my clips due to timecode breaks.
Is there a way to bypass this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!

Answer 1

Verify that the timecode on the tape is the same as the clip, because when you capture the way you did with Free Run (or time of day) code, the proper timecode doesn't always get recorded for each clip. This is where Logging and Capturing each clip would have been your best bet.
If the time code matches, it might be because with free run code, where you have breaks, when FCP wants to recapture, it needs enough PRE ROLL in order to get a running start and capture the footage. When it doesn't have that, if you used footage from the first second (hmmm...that looks odd...first, second. first second...anyway) then FCP doesn't have enough pre-roll to capture that clip. Again, Log and Capture solves this as you know from the start that you need more pre-roll.
What can you do? Well, not having had to solve this issue, I'm not really sure. First off, Media Manage your sequence into a new project, using only the footage in that project, then try to capture the clips in the bin. If you find one with an issue, move on to the next one. When you are done and have all of your problem clips set aside, track down their TC numbers, CAPTURE NOW at those spots, and cut them in manually. That's all I can think to do.
Shane