Preview video in log capture

Never mind I knew it was something stupid
thanks though

Well now. I guess that makes two of us,
Still, since you started this thread, the deal is ... you must post the solution.
cheers,
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Will Not Preview clip in Log & Capture w/ Point&Shoot Camera

Hi, I am trying to capture from a point-and-shoot camera, the Canon ZR500. I have the camera hooked up with Firewire and FCP recognizes the camera. In Log & Capture, however, the clip playing on the camera will not preview in the window. When I hit capture now, I get the spinning beachball of death! I have tried different firewire cords. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Help!

I am trying to capture from a point-and-shoot camera, the Canon ZR500.
Is this a still camera that can shoot video? If so, you will need to offload the files and convert them in another application, maybe something from Canon that only runs on a PC. Search for that camera model here on the forum, you may find some useful pre-existing threads.
bogiesan

Problem with previewing video when capturing

I recently had to reinstall FCP onto my Powerbook and since doing this the following problem has occured:
When I open the log and capture window the program recognises my DV deck and plays the footage fine. However, when I start to capture the footage, the video preview is disabled - it freezes on the 1st frame. The video is capturing fine and when I check the audio preview box I am able to listen to the audio whilst capturing, but I can usually preview the video as well.
In the audio / video settings the 'capture card supports simultaneous play through and capture' boxis checked - and as I say, this was fine before re-installing.
Presumably this is as simple as a preference that has not been altered since I re-installed the program?
If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan

It is highy likely that quicktime is wacky after the FCP reinstall.
go to /library/receipts and delete any files that say quicktime followed by a number (eg Quicktime652.pkg)
Go to the Quicktime download web site and download the correct version for your OS and FCP version.
Reinstall.
Reboot.
Repair permissions.
Good luck.
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Hmc150 Video files disappear or aren't imported during Log & Capture

I'm having a terrible problem when importing video clips using Log & Capture on FCExpress.
The clips are on 5 different SDHC cards, recorded on a hmc150.
Some clips appear just fine. But when I search for clips after the import only about half of them are there. Also FCE is naming each clip in chronological order, often replacing previously captured clips. This results in no order.
I cannot trust that my computer uploaded what it says is there.
I'm using a 17" MacBook Pro with intel. And saving my clips on an external harddrive. Plenty of RAM. Plenty of storage space.
Why is FCE spacing out?? Could it be the card reader?

I am experiencing the same thing (I think).
I'm running a Mac Pro with FCE 4.0.1 and a Sony HDD HD Camcorder. I'm importing from a saved copy of the Camcorder's HDD (running from a local HDD). I'm importing about 2000 clips, and about 3/4 of the way in, clips look like they're importing fine, but are not showing up in the Clips list. Then I go back and see that instead of adding new clips, it was actually over-writing other clips that I had imported earlier in the same Log & Transfer process.
It's frustrating, and has happened multiple times, with different groupings of clips. There is then a lot of backtracking because there is no date/time metadata in the imported clips.
Any help would be appreciated, or if it is a known and unresolved issue, it would be nice just to know I'm not crazy.
Thanks.
DG

Log & Capture wont let me transfer video

I recorded a few videos with my digital camcorder and I'm trying to transfer them to my computer. I go to Log & Capture and I see the 3 videos listed. For some reason, I cant transfer the video for 2 of them, only audio. The video and audio checkboxes are faded so I can't check the video checkbox. I also tried transfering with iMovie and it still doesn't work, which leads me to believe that it is a problem with the video.
Help?

Oops, I actually meant to say Log & Transfer. That's what I actually used.
The problem that I'm having, I'm having it on my MacBook Pro. I just went to try and transfer on another computer (college computer lab, iMac) and now the transferring works perfectly... So I guess it's a problem with my computer...

Video & Audio Files Logged & Captured Independently. Why?

Hello All,
I've been working with a Panasonic DVX 100B for some time now. I've had nothing but success in shooting footage, and transferring it to my computer using the Log & Capture function. On my latest attempt something has happened that I can't figure out. The video and audio are captured, but they are not linked. In other words, I can find the video file in my Capture Scratch / Project Folder, but when I import it into my project, there is no audio accompanying it. I can however find the audio file in the Audio Capture Scratch, and import that. When placed at the same playhead location on the timeline, they are perfectly in sync. This is nice, but it makes editing an unnecessary struggle.
I tried logging and capturing twice, to see if it was just a glitch. The same thing occurred.
Did I bump something inadvertently? What's happening? Finally, is there a way to permanently connect the audio and video now, or do I need to log and capture again (3rd time being a charm)?
Thanks.
DG

You changed the capture scratch disk setting.
• Uncheck "capture audio and video to separate files".
To link the audio and video
• Once the audio and video are in the timeline and aligned, select them then: Modify>Link (⌘+L)
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Connecting Log & Capture to an External Display

Forum,
I am using FCP for my current project. While logging footage from my camera I thought it would be easier if I could hook up the Preview area of the Log & Capture window to an external device such as a display. Is this possible?
How do I achieve this? What kind of an adaptor is needed?
Thanks.

#8 External Monitor Viewing.
Shane's Stock Answer #8:
A simple path is mac > firewire > camera or deck > rca cables > tv
Then start up your camera and tv, then open fcp.
Then go View > External video > all frames
Video playback should be Apple firewire NTSC (If you are using an NTSC set)
Audio playback should be Audio follows Video
Techinially, this should send synched video to your TV
If for some reason you can't view your timeline on your external monitor, there are a few things to try:
1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.
2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.
4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.
5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices
6) Make sure the Log & Capture window is closed
If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section
Shane

Log & Capture "Incomplete" file

Hey guys,
I've got a problem capturing a single file. In the Log & Capture window, it shows "Incomplete" beside the clip, but there are two things about that. First, I have another "Incomplete" clip that captures fine, and second, I can see the entire clip in the Log & Capture window. So why can't I just get that video from the preview to the FCP project? Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Lawrence

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Log & capture question

a small thing that i find kind of annoying ... log & capture works fine but i guess there's no way see the timecode (other than looking at the deck which sometimes isn't convenient) as you're capturing. when you begin capturing this "preview" window or whatever pops and says you're capturing but the log & capture tool/deck controller is now in the background and the code in the timecode is no longer active. imho it would nice and even useful if the log & capture tool remained in the foreground and active as it does in avid ...

Attach a video monitor to the deck and enable the time code overlay display on the deck.
Attach a pair of audio monitors and you have the complete package - audio/video/tc.
x

Log & Capture problem

Howdy folks! So here is the problem....
Log & capturing a Sony DV 80 tape from Sony DSR-11.
After a few minutes capture stops and dialogue box states...."Capture encountered a problem reading the data on your source tape".
The tape plays back just fine in the preview mode but will not load in the log & capture mode.
I have tried the following: capture now mode, playing back from camera tape was originally shot on, making a copy of tape and then trying to capture. None of these things have worked.
Would love to hear back from anyone on how to load tape up if possible.
In all the years I have never had this problem, so maybe it IS just a bad tape and I have to give up.
Thanks for your time,
Liza

Liza Sanchez wrote:
So after making the composite video and editing in FCP I am ready to render.
What are your sequence settings? You should not need to render at all if you're just doing regular ol' DV.
Liza Sanchez wrote: Dialog box keeps coming up "File Error: Illegal name".
After going threw all the normal checks ie., keystrokes, numbers and names for errors, giving
project a different name. I can still not render. There are no "red" lines just "green" lines for
rendering.
Be sure your prefs for FCP have a properly designated Render Scratch disk, you've got room on that drive, and there's a folder been created for your project. I'm betting you've got render asigned to your System drive.
This could be more of a Finder issue than an FCP error. But without watching over your shoulder it's literally impossible to begin to guess. You can search the forum for that specific error.
Liza Sanchez wrote:
Do you think b/c it is a composite/digital file that is why I am having problems?
Not related at all. You made a composite compy of your tape but you captured via FW directly to the DV codec. Your sequence should also be DV.
Liza Sanchez wrote:
I am going to try and export to compressor just to see what happens.
There's no reason to do this at all but what are you planing on sending to Compressor? The media or the sequence?
bogiesan

The log & capture window has become disabled...can control cam, but no vid.

I have been capturing 24p footage from the DVX100a and the log & capture feature has been working fine, until after the print to video feature was used. Now the device control works, but it will only display color bars. I have checked and rechecked the audio/video settings, as well as user preferences. Am I missing something simple?

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Probably but it's impossible to tell from here. Search the forum for your camera model and for preview disabled. We get at least one post a day on these topics. I don't follow the threads, I just see them all the time.
Try shutting down your system, disconnect the FW stuff, restart. Usually resets the FW bus. But there are many cameras out there now that tend to drop in and out of the preview window.
bogiesan

When i am logging/ Capturing my mac is telling me that i am getting dropped frames. would i need to get a LaCie Hard Drive?

When i am logging/ Capturing my mac is telling me that i am getting dropped frames. would i need to get a LaCie Hard Drive?

To be honest, I've had 2 Lacie drives crash out of 2 bought. That's not a good track record for me.
Your best bet (I'm a computer professional, for what it's worth):
Get a hard drive case or enclosure that supports firewire 800 and put your own PC hard drive (SATA for example) 7200rpm or higher hard drive into it.
Let me explain a bit more. External hard drive manufacturers often put no-name hard drives into fancy cases to cut costs and that's how they make a profit. I've have had nothing but problems with with these types of drives. (Like Lacie) You are much better off getting some type of decent drive enclosure and getting your own GOOD hard drive. I would highly recommend Seagate, I have NEVER had a problem with a Seagate drive in 20 years of owning PCs and Macs. Western Digital is also a good brand (though I had 1 crash). These are the types of drives you would put in your Mac Pro. You want to get an SATA hard drive.
I have owned several external cases where the case electronics fried, but the hard drives were still in good shape. Take the hard drive out, put it into a new case you're good to go!
For video you want to make sure that your hard drive case supports Firewire 800! This is mandatory.
My personal favorite, (and I own 5 of these) is Vantec's NexStar hard drive enclosure. They accept any SATA 3.5" drive (I bought mine from a company called ComputerStop). I have yet to have a single problem with any of them. They are solid aluminum casing, you can literally throw them into your backback, drop them on the floor and your hard drive is fairly well protected from impact damage (at least you won't break the case with anything short of a sledgehammer). I am currently looking at getting a second one of these:
http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/173
(My bad, this is an IDE case up to 750GB)
This the one you want:
http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/354
As far as the hard drive, you can get a Seagate Baracuda drive 1TB at 7200rpm drive for about $60. The case and hard drive together, maybe a few over $100 for the whole thing. With shipping, and tax figure about $150.
Don't let the price fool you. It will rock.
Story: I got an iOmega "raid" case with two Seagate drives in it and the iOemga case fried, but the hard drives were still good. Fortunately, they were in two removable trays. I put them into two "rocketfish" hard drive cases almost 3 years ago and I am still using them every day today.
Moral of this story: It's the quality of the hard drive that matters, not what case it's in.
Is it hard to set up?
Not at all. You put the hard drive into a tray, (with Vantec case), screw it in. It only goes in 1 way. Plug in a power cable to the drive. Slide the tray into the case (carefully, don't munch the power cable!) and screw it in place. You can literally do it in 10 minutes or less. There are, of course instructions, but if you are reasonably clever, you can literally see what plugs into what just by looking at it.
Sorry for the long reply, but I have a lot of experience with external drives and I hope this helps others.
Finally, when you make it to the big time you can spend $400, get yourself a firewire RAID enclosure and you can upgrade to 4 external hard drives in 1 enclosure. Figure $800 for that set up, but you can go up to 12 TB of drive space with that, or up to 3TB if you are running redundant discs. But that's a whole other ballgame...
Peace.

Camera Pod Problem: Preview video is ok, Shared Video is Black Screen

We have several rooms with a USB or Firwire capture device and an NTSC PTZ camera feeding composite video.
For example, we have a Startech SVID2USB23 USB Composite Video Capture device with a Sony EVI-D70 PTZ camera.
The problem is that we can "Start My Webcam" and get good preview video, but when we "Start Sharing", the screen goes black.
I did find a couple related postings in the forums:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/778016
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3942993?tstart=0
From the postings, I think the problem is that the video may not be 640x480@20fps.
But I have to ask, why do we get good video in the preview window?
In the second link above, it's mentioned that higher resolutions and frame rates will be supported in future releases.
Is this issue addressed in the version 9.0 release scheduled for December 7?
For a work around, I saw the Talking Stick Add-on which looks very interesting.
I also found that ManyCam (http://www.manycam.com/) works to address the problem.
These work, but add a layer of complexity for our users that we would like to avoid.
Is there an easier way to address this problem?
Does version 9.0 fix the issue?
Thanks for any help,
Paul

I had the same issue when I upgraded. The "fix" currently via Adobe support is Stop the camera, open Camera and Voice Pod Preferences, move the slider to Low or Medium, restart the camera.
I am using the Osprey 230 card in 8 rooms, I would have been **** if I couldn't get this working. I changed all my templates to reflect this change so I don't have to troubleshoot every time we have a class.
Here is a link to the Known Issues where this is listed: http://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-connect/release-note/connect-9-known-issues.html There do not give the solution but when its fixed they should remove it from the list.

Odd ... Log & Capture won't open with a particular camcorder connected

Actually ... Final Cut Pro protests in general ... sometimes completely locks up with the dreaded spinning color wheel when this one Panasonic Camcorder is connected. The moment I turn it off or unplug it - FCP returns to life!
I have in the past captured video from this camera, but it has always been a little sketchy - takes a few tries to get log & capture to work with it. Seems it's not working at all now.
Only thing I think I did different in the past was use a different FW cable.
Any reason a particular camcorder could prevent FCP from working?

I plan on trying the other cable (am in Mexico now & that cable is back in the US).
What struck me as odd though, and the reason I thought there might be some camera-specific reason, is that even with the other cable it was always finicky.
Although I could eventually get it to work using that other cable, it almost never worked on the first try (the mini-DV Panasonic PV GS2). Using my Sony Hi-8 Digital cam, it's always 100% reliable, regardless of what cable I'm using.

Log & Capture -- audio out of sync

We are editing a feature doc...we logged & captured a few tapes. We are not certain of the fps rate that the DV was shot. We are told it is 24p. We are working off of dubs...if that makes a differnce???
When we do a advanced pulldown the audio is really out of sync. When we capture at 29.97fps, it is also out of sync. We are baffled. Below is the warning that we get when we batch capture and the capturing is completed:
<<The audio sample rate of one or more of your captured media files does
not match the sample rate on your source tape. This may cause the
video and audio of these media files to be out of sync. Make sure the
audio sample rate of your capture preset matches the sample rate of
your tape.>>
We would love to edit this in 29.97fps to be able to view off our monitor.
Are there any suggestions to troubleshoot?
We are proceeding to log, but not capture. Is this wise? Or should we find out what is wrong first?
Thanks, joeyngloria

I'm delighted--in a sick way--to see this topic being posted today, since I'm having a very similar problem:
While capturing HD footage shot with, and captured from, a Sony HDR-FX1, I noticed that the A/V were out of sync by a solid second, maybe longer (FCP 5.1.4). The problem is there from the start of each of two tapes, and it's there throughout. Both tapes are 1 hour of continuous film with no cuts (they were interviews).
There's no sync problem when the footage is viewed on the camera's LCD, and it doesn't matter if I capture to my external drive (Maxtor, 500 gig, FW 800, empty) or to my iMac (1.6 Ghz) hard drive (something I did as an experiment to test whether there was something going on with the external drive).
Captured clips played in the viewer faithfully reproduce the out of sync A/V.
Appreciate your help.

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