Final Cut Express 2.0

[sb]

Anyone who knows when FCP 5 is coming out won't be talking :)

A good guess, based on past announcements, would be announce on April 17th
(NAB convention) and ship sometime later.

FCExpress 2 captures over TC breaks, just like FCP4.
Normal behaviour is to loose a/v sync over a break, not drop frames.

You can check by cueing up a clip (longish) and doing a Capture Now,
stopping before the break. If it drops frames, then you need to troubleshoot
your setup.

You might want to address why you have TC breaks on the tape. If you are the
shooter, you could stripe them before using them (or re-using), then you
wouldn't have the breaks to begin with.

 sb

On 1/7/04 4:07 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

>> On 1/7/04 5:07 PM, sb at videovideo at mac.com wrote:
>> 
>>> I think there's just something wrong with your FCE setup. You really should
>>> be able to capture without dropping frames.
>> 
>> I think the frames are dropping because of breaks in the timecode.  Does it
>> affect audio/video sync?
>> 
>> Maybe FCE 2 fixes this?
>> 
>> http://www.apple.com/finalcut/
> 
> I suspect you're right that the dropped frames might be because of breaks in
> the timecode.  As 'sb' points out, there is no reason with my hardware that I
> should be dropping frames.
> 
> I'm hoping that FCE2 will fix my problems, but at the same time, I'm wondering
> if I don't want to upgrade to FCP4 rather than FCE2 as I'd really like to have
> the better titling features in FCP4 (BTW, anyone know when FCP5 will be out?).
> 
> Zane