Online help with Batch Capture

I'm trying to online a sequence in a tapeless workflow. I'm using Log & Transfer along with Batch Capture but Batch Capture keeps looking for a deck. How do I get it to look for my Hi-Res digital files?

Yeah...that's the problem.
You directly imported it and worked with it natively? What is this footage? From what camera?
The only way to offline/online with tapeless is to bring in the footage via Log and Transfer. Log and Transfer to ProRes Proxy...then you can Batch Capture to a higher data rate ProRes format.

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Help with Batch Capturing, Timecode Issues?

Hi Final Cut Pro Pro's. I've just come over from Avid.
I have a problem with capturing - I have a lot of tapes to capture and there is no way I will make deadline doing it by individual capture - I need to batch capture. My tape shows no timecode breaks and I have already spent hours logging all the various clips. It shows it has registered all of the media start/end timecodes, but when I click on batch capture, it says
BATCH CAPTURE: TIMECODE ERROR: UNABLE TO LOCATE THE SPECIFIED TIMECODE. YOU MAY HAVE SPECIFIED A TIMECODE WITH INSUFFICIENT ROOM FOR A PRE/POST ROLL OPERATION.
I don't understand as there is clearly a functioning timecode? This is going to break my balls if I have to go through this individually, no time! Anyone? Any ideas?
Thank you.

I'm capturing from the camera directly, a Sony DSR-250...
It turns out that yes, if you have marked the in/out point too close to the head or the tail of the tape, or even if you have marked it okay and are currently at the start/end of tape when pressing on batch capture it cannot send the command to the device. If you move forward or backward accordingly by five or six seconds it doesn't come up anymore.
Thanks for all the responses, I'm going to make deadline now. Apple forums are my hot hot S€X.

Help! Batch Capture Changes My Logged Clips' Media Start & Media End

I'd be very grateful for any help on this.
I log a tape with about 40 clips ranging from 30 seconds to 4 minutes. I select the clips and start a batch capture. Everything appears to be capturing normally and I receive no error messages or dropped frame warnings - after my last clip is captured I get a "Successfully Captured" message.
However, as soon as I click "Finished," all of my clip media start's, media end's, and durations in the log window arbitrarily change to weird times. All my media start points are 26 frames too early (I've tripple-checked that "Add Handles" is indeed deactivated), and the media end points make no sense at all.
A clip that was once 44 seconds long is now only 12 seconds long, the media end point moved a whopping 34:03 too early. Another clip will become 2 seconds longer, the media start point still shifted back 26 frames, but with the media end now 31 frames too late. Checking the original files on my drive confirms that only these weird, unusable segments are what has been captured.
What complicates things is that I just discovered today that if I capture locally to my internal hard disk, the clips capture normally (the times remain unchanged). But if I set my capture scratch to my external hard drive (a LaCie F800 2-TB RAID-5 using Firewire-800), that's when the clips start changing themselves. I ran disk utility and found no errors on the drive, and have never had a problem with it or any part of my configuration until the last month or so... the only changes to my system being the regular use of Software Update.
On top of that, my colleague is experiencing a similar problem with batch capture changing his clip times, even though he is using a different computer (single-processor G5), a different video deck (Sony DHR-1000), and a different storage medium (Apple Xserve RAID).
So my question is: What is happening! The only thing I can think of is that perhaps some update has a bug - but I can't find anyone with a similar problem online.
Any help on this would be extremely appreciated! Thank you in advance for your advice.
Dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) Deck: JVC CU-VH1 / Storage: LaCie F800 2-TB RAID-5
Dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Here's an update on this. Both my colleague and I have confirmed that if we capture to an internal or external drive that is not a RAID FCPro batch captures just fine.
But, if the drive we are capturing to is a RAID (in my case a LaCie Biggest F800 and his case an Apple Xserve), then we get dropped frame reports and/or clip in's and out's changing after the batch capture is complete.
We even tried reformatting one of the xServe's and rebuilding it as non-journaled, it didn't solve the problem.
It seems impossible that we're the only ones to be experiencing this problem... does anybody have any help or suggestions!?

Help ! Batch Capture won't capture . FCP 5 & Kona 3

When I select any offline clip and try to batch capture it - the machine seems to be working fine, cues up the deck at the start of the clip, rolls away - the capture screen appears but then everything just keeps rolling - ie it doesnt stop when it reaches the tc out point of the clip. I eventually have to abort and the offline clip remains offline.
Capture Now on the fly works fine.
This is a new G5 Quad running the latest OS with FCP5 capturing from a Digibeta PAL Sony deck with RS 422 control thru the AJA BOB to a Kona 3 Card. I havce full deck control as normal thru the Log & Capture window.
Any help would be appreciated.

Do you have the latest Kona drivers? What are you capturing to? What codec are you using?
Patrick

Help with batch processing

Hi, I am having trouble with batch processing. I want to apply adaptive noise reduction (ANR) to several files from the same source tapes. So, following the help instructions, I create a script from one file. When I try to apply it to the other files, instead of applying ANR to them, it simply saves them as is. The steps I perform are as follows:
I select the entire wave (I have also tried it without first selecting)
I open the scripts box in the file menu
I click on open/new script collection and create a new script
I title the new script
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I close the scripts box
I run ANR on the file
I go back to the scripts box and click 'stop current script'
I click add to collection
I close the scripts box
I open the batch processing box
I select the files, then the script, then I click to start processing
When I try to apply this to script to other files, it saves them but doesn't apply ANR.
Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong? Also, in the scripts box, there are three options for the type of script that I can create. One is highlighted: 'Scripts start from scratch.' Is that the correct one to use? If not, how do I select one of the others? I click on them but nothing happens. Finally, when creating a script, do I save the file before or after clicking 'stop record'? I have tried it both ways but don't know which is correct (neither seems to make a difference).
Just to be as thorough as possible, below is the text of one of my scripts, in case that contains any clues. Thanks so much for any and all help!!
Collection: doubletnr
Title: d2
Description:
Mode: 2
Undo: 0
Selected: none at 0 scaled 109479495 SR 44100
Freq: Off
cmd: Channel Both
Selected: 0 to 109479494 scaled 109479495 SR 44100
Freq: Off
Comment: Restoration\Adaptive Noise Reduction
cmd: {EA93BBBE-0B8F-47D6-AC6D-B67B46524E41}
1: 52,AAAÛÚZAAQãýÇÛÚÚAAAĎč¸āĂ}úÓ~ipkiëåÁëåÁ
2:
3: 13
4: 0
5: 0
6: 3190728
7: 0
8: 0
9: 0
10: 1
Freq: Off
End:

This is what my script looks like. Although I was worried about the strange characters in the script, it does work.
Make sure that the script you use is suitable for the sample rate and bit depth of the file. E.g. if you have 44100/32-bit files, then don't use a script that was recorded on a file with e.g. 48000/16-bit. If required, resample or make different scripts for different rates/depths.
Collection: Test ANR AA Forum
Title: Test ANR AA Forum
Description:
Mode: 4
Undo: 1
Selected: 0 to 9233563 scaled 9233563 SR 44100
Freq: Off
cmd: Channel Both
Selected: 0 to 9233563 scaled 9233563 SR 44100
Freq: Off
Comment: Restoration\Adaptive Noise Reduction
cmd: {EA93BBBE-0B8F-47D6-AC6D-B67B46524E41}
1: 52,AAAÛÚZAAQãýÇÛÚÚAAAĎč¸āĂ}úÓ~ipkiëåÁëåÁ
2:
3: 13
4: 0
5: 0
6: 154705552
7: 0
8: 0
9: 0
10: 1
Freq: Off
End:

Troublw with Batch Capture

I am currently reimporting a sequence I originally edited in ProRes Proxy from AVCHD camera originals. I have made an off line copy of the sequence in media manager with 1 sec handles. When I batch capture the new sequence log and transfer finds all the correct original clips and begins the re-import process. I can watch the mov files being created in the scratch capture folder. After each mov file is created it is then mysteriously deleted when Log and Transfer moves on to the next clip. At the end of the process the final clip is automatically deleted from the folder leaving it empty. Manually importing clips from the same mounted volumes work correctly. This problem occurs no matter what the drive array I capture to and no matter what ProRes resolution I capture in. I am on FCP Ver.7. Anybody have any ideas how to remedy this situation. Thanks.

try capturing to your startup drive as a test. if that works, I would suspect a problem with the raid.

Problems with Batch Capture

I have a G5 Quad and Final Cut Studio (with FCP 5) and am running Leopard. Everything was running smoothly until about 2 months ago. I reinstalled Leopard ... from a clean install. I reinstalled FCP and everything worked well, EXCEPT. Now when I try a Batch Capture ... I set up 5 or 6 clips then tell FCP to capture all. It will rewind to the first clip ... the screen shows "go to cueing source material" ... less than a second of the clip shows, the screen then shows "go to cueing source material" ... then I get an error message - "dropped frames"
This is the same camera that I used before the install. I am hoping that this is just some "dumb" thing I forgot to click.
Any suggestions

Which camera? Also post the last time you had it serviced... if the heads get dirty or the tracking is off one whit, you'll get these error messages.
Jerry

Customising Oracle online help with Tutor 11i

We would like to use Tutor for modifying our oracle financials online help. Has anyone tried this? What were your results like and would you recommend this approach?
Thanks

You can check out some excellent examples of what's possible with Oracle Tutor at the following links
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Help with tethered capture in lightroom 4

I want to do live tetherring from the camera into lightroom four. I need help with the procedure
Riche

Camera? Is it supported? There is a tutorial here which may help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYs8WbTbJCk

Help w/ batch capture?

Hey guys,
Just finished a shoot in the city this arvo. Got back to log and capture and have run into a short problem.
I've logged all my clips, about 25 minutes worth, broken up into 7 seperate clips. The footage from today was recorded onto the second half of a 60-min tape. I shot 10 seconds of nothingness before todays shoot to give me a good buffer for batch pre-roll. The problem is, even if I try to batch capture starting at a point (let's say 2:00;00 in, for hypothetical), the camera insists on returning to the very beginning of the tape. So, because I have a timecode break, and theoretically 2 different 2:00;00 timecodes, I've run into trouble.
Question is, is there a setting in capture settings that will make it not continue past my broken timecode. ie, I want to stay on this side of the break and not jump to that side! haha.
Hope I was clear enough. If it makes any difference, I'm using a Sony Z1P for capture purposes.
Thanks, Josh

I thought Final Cut renames reels automatically when it detects broken timecode. No? At least this is standard behavior on my machine and I find it very useful. (I might have set it up myself without even knowing it - there are way too many settings in different menus.)
Edit: I use "Capture Now" and seldom "Log and Capture" because my clients prefer to have all their footage on the hard drive. Probably when you do it in a proper way and log clips first, you do have to change the reel name manually.
Message was edited by: George Bazhenov

Help with Batch Labeler (extremely Urgent)

Good Afternoon Eeveryone,
I am in need of help to create a Batch file to stamp the filename of the PDF document in the document itself.
This is for audit and control purposes.
i have the following javascript to add the filename as a header.
app.addSubMenu({ cName: "Header",cUser: "Set/Remove Header", cParent: "File", nPos: 20 });
app.addMenuItem({ cName: "(Filename)", cParent: "Header", cExec: "SetHeader(1)"});
app.addMenuItem({ cName: "-------------------------------", cParent: "Header",cExec: "{}"});
app.addMenuItem({ cName: "(Filename)", cParent: "Header", cExec: "RemoveHeader(1)"});
//Set/remove Header
function SetHeader(ARG)
var re = /.*\/|\.pdf$/ig;
var FileNM = this.path.replace(re,"")+".pdf";
var Path = this.path;
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var AcDateFormat = "yyyy/mmm/dd HH:MM"
var Box2Width = 50
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var TotWidth = aRect[2] - aRect[0]
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       fd.textSize=12; fd.readonly = true;
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I found this on another Thread and made some changes to suit my needs, now i need this to reproduce to a large ammount of pdf files, and that works with adobe reader.
i have this batch file that i also took from another thread, if i click on it it works fine, i change the directory where it sends the files but when i drop a file on it it gives a error saying it cant "create object acroexch.app"
'////// User settings /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
fileSaveDir = "c:\Temp"    '/->state an existing folder for saving changed files
mode = 1         '/-> 0=work hidden; 1= show acrobat
test = 1             '/-> 0= don't show messages; 1=show messages
'    // set WSH objects
set oWsh = CreateObject ("Wscript.Shell")
Set oArgs = WScript.Arguments
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'    // test basic files/folders
if not fso.FolderExists(fileSaveDir) then : msgBox("Folder """ &fileSaveDir &""" don't exist") : wscript.quit : end if
if oArgs.Count = 0 then :    MsgBox("Drag & Drop files on this") : Wscript.quit : end if
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Set App = CreateObject("Acroexch.app")
if mode > 0 then app.show
Set AVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
Set AForm = CreateObject("AFormAut.App") 'from AFormAPI
'    // write acro-js to a variable for later executing
Ex = " // set Date and filename as footer "&vbLF _
& " var re = /.*\/|\.pdf$/ig; "&vbLF _
& " var FileNM = this.path.replace(re,"""")+"".pdf""; "&vbLF _
& " var AcDate = new Date(); "&vbLF _
& " var AcDateFormat = ""yyyy/mmm/dd HH:MM""; "&vbLF _
& " for (var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)   "&vbLF _
& " {   "&vbLF _
& "    var aRect = this.getPageBox(""Crop"",p); "&vbLF _
& "    var TotWidth = aRect[2] - aRect[0]; "&vbLF _
& "    var fd = this.addField(""xftDate"", ""text"", p, [30,15, TotWidth-30-30,30]);   "&vbLF _
& "    fd.value = util.printd(AcDateFormat, AcDate) + ""   ("" + FileNM +"")"";   "&vbLF _
& "    fd.textSize=6;   "&vbLF _
& "    fd.readonly = true; "&vbLF _
& "    fd.alignment=""left""; "&vbLF _
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        App.CloseAllDocs
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        msgbox("Coudn't open file!") : wscript.quit
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Set AVDoc = Nothing : Set PDDoc = Nothing
Set APP = Nothing : Set AForm = Nothing

thanks for all the replies, the documents are forms usage rights, the first javascript is running fine and dandy doing exactly what i want, all i need is something to run that javascript on multiple pdf at once.
since this is for audit purposes i really could use this otherwise i would have to manually write over 400 document filename/numbers on eveyr piece of paper..
=X

Need help with batch processing picture packages

Hi, I am having trouble batch processing picture packages is CS2. (Windows).
I have hundreds of images that need to be processed into picture packages and would love to find a speedier way to do this.
I know how to create an action. I know how to batch process from this action. I also know how to create picture packages, but I cannot get the final result I am after - please read on....
I have seperated all the images into their seperate folders for each style of picture package required.
I can create an action for the picture package required and then do a batch process on the particular folder, but this leaves all the picture packages open on the desktop - as when you chose the close and save in the batch process - this only closes and saves the original image - the picture package has been created as a new document and is on the desktop still open - named Picture Package 1, Picture Package 2 - etc etc.
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My files are currently named as such: ABC-100-name-01
I need them to read: ABC-100-01-name
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As I can’t get it to work myself, I ask for help…….
Appreciate your answer
all the best from austria

You don't need to go through the double export process. You can either place the edited and rendered 720p sequence in the 352x288 sequence and then export, or you can scale the image down on export in the QuickTime Conversion export module, or in Compressor. Any QuickTime can read uncompressed video.

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