There are ways to get around the DVstream/DV gap. The best way for me to explain this is by my technique in Final Cut Pro, which should be transferable to Final Cut Express...I hope. If you can get your source into firewire converter, or a camera that allows pass through than you should have no problem at all in Final Cut. First thing first hook up your source to your digital camera, and your digital camera to your computer. now when you play the source double check to see that it is playing into your camera if it is than you are in luck. Now bear with me because not all cameras allow pass through and some need to be set up via their menu to be able to allow pass through via firewire. *If you can get imovie to do it than you can get final cut to do it.* now press command 8, or go to the log and capture menu in final cut. now if you go to try and capture this footage now final cut will not recognize it..you need to click uncontrollable device as your source, it should be set as firewire ntsc right now. this menu will be in your upper right corner of your capture window just set it to uncontrollable device.. Now press play on your source deck and see if you are getting anything. sometimes you have to mess with it a bit, but this will get video into final cut. Now press capture now and Final Cut will begin to capture your footage, press esc when you are done or let it capture up until your capture time limit is reached which is set to 30 minutes by default. what is going on here is an issue with time code. Final cut reads the time code of your dv tape and captures it by using that to control the deck. That is why you can do batch captures in Final Cut while you cannot in Imovie. When you capture now you are just capturing the stream and final cut goes ahead generates time code for the footage as you capture it.
Darrin,
Oklahoma's Final Cut Pro GURUOn Mar 4, 2004, at 2:00 PM, G-Books wrote:
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:01:22 +0900 Subject: Re: importing/exporting film footage From: bee4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I do not know for sure if this is correct, but I heard that Final Cut Express only works with DV. I had the same trouble with my Beta ED camera, first I went through a Sony DV camera into the Mac and then a Pioneer Recorder into the Mac. This was all through Firewire, iMovie worked each time, but our Final Cut Express would not recognize it. Hope someone with more knowledge can help us, I gave up on this 6 months ago.
Brian
On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 02:53 PM, G-Books wrote:
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:28:45 -0800 From: AKR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: importing/exporting film footage Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Okay - the other night, I managed to copy some film footage from a VHS tape, through a dv recorder/player into my Powerbook. I was not able to import it into Final Cut Express for some reason so had to use iMovie as we were in a rush to get this done.
However, I don't like the destructive editing features of iMovie and
would like to export the footage into Final Cut Express but have been
unable to do this so far as FCE is not able to see the file anywhere on
the hard drive.
Could somebody please suggest how this is done ?
Thanks,
Amber
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