Simplest Way to Capture Footage

1) What is the simplest way to capture? Take me thru the process.
Coming from Adobe Premier Pro background.
My old process was capture all the takes for one scene rather than each take.
My projects at this point are only for myself, but I would like to be professional as possible.
2) I used capture ~now~ as a test but it didn't allow me to label it. How do I label each clip?
3) On another thread, I read it's best to avoid capture ~now~ and I would like to know why?
Thanks,
J

Hi J,
Although I've been editing for about 20 years I've only been using FCP for a couple of weeks. There are things that I really like about it but I'm surprised at the lack of functionality. I keep hoping its just me and I need to keep searching and I'll find it. Capturing is one of those areas.
In PPro it was so nice to be able to capture an entire tape with scene detection. I logged and batched captured a one hour tape in FCP using a Sony HC1 and it was not a pleasant experience. It was slow, the camera did not respond well to FCP's device controls, the image in the preview window switched to a very low resolution during shuttle, once it was logged it batched capture nicely.
I'm going to try to capture an entire tape then create subclips and use media manager to delete what I don't want. I'll let you know how that goes. In the follwing thread - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3851989#3851989
there's a recomendation for a third party application to capture with. Unfortunately it only does DV, I don't do any DV, I'm just using DV to practice with while learning FCP.
Please let me know what you come up with.
Thanks

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