Hooking up RCA video to G5

[sb]

Yes, you can almost automatically re-capture, if you used dv tape with
timecode.

You open the project and you get an error message saying something like
"cant' find media". You say OK. Then you open up the Capture window and
click on Capture Project.

It will prompt you for options like Offline items, with handles, etc.

 sb

(Reel numbers are absolutely critical for this process to work)


On 1/10/04 3:05 AM, "R B Williams" <brucewll at comcast.net> wrote:

> SB makes a point that I don't understand. Say I have a FCE movie compiled from
> three
> source reels. The source material is no longer on the hard drive. Can you
> really
> recapture so that Final Cut identifies all of the shots from new digital
> files?  If so,
> how does it work?
> 
> sb wrote:
> 
>> It's not because of problems going straight out of VHS, pass thru convert to
>> DV that I recommend dubbing.
>> 
>> It's so that he will have a digital copy with timecode to use in case of
>> re-capture and archiving.
>> 
>>  sb
>> 
>> On 1/8/04 8:25 PM, "Video International" <videoint at jb3.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:
>> 
>>> I haven't experienced problems going directly from a VHS player through
>>> a Canopus ADVC100 into FCP.
>>> 
>>> Rick
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> For FCP, I would recommend that you convert (dub) all your VHS tapes
>>>> to dv
>>>> first, then use the DV tapes to import into FCP.