Final Cut Pro 7 Lesson 8 from the Weynand certification text.

1. Lesson 8: Capturing and Transferring Footage Apple Pro Training Series Final Cut Pro 7 Instructor: Sam Edsall

2. Ingesting Media into Final Cut

3. Fire Master

4. Fire Master

5. Creating a New Project for Capturing

6. Creating a New Project for Capturing

7. Creating a New Project for Capturing

8. Preparing the Project Start up Final Cut Pro. Close any open projects, including any ‘untitled’ projects that were created automatically. -- remember, with no open sequences, there will be no canvas or timeline.

9. Preparing the Project Set it up: Select Final Cut Pro > Easy Setup. Click the ‘Format’ pop-up menu: -- filters your search by choosing a general format or frame rate first. In the Format pop-up menu choose ‘NTSC’ Under Use, choose ‘DV-NTSC’

10. Preparing the Project Reset your project: Select the sequence in the project and delete it. -- the old sequence reflects the old settings. Press Command N to make a new sequence and load it. -- this sequence reflects the Easy Set-up settings. Save the project as Lesson 8

11. Matching Media to the Sequence

12. Matching Media to the Sequence

13. Capturing Media Open Log & Capture: Choose File > Log and Capture Or press Command 8 (good one to remember)

14. Log and Capture Make it Big: 1. Close Log & Capture window. 2. Choose Window > Arrange > Two Up 3. Now try Log & Capture

15. Log and Capture

16. Log and Capture

17. Log and Capture

18. Log and Capture Shortcuts work here, too.

19. Log and Capture Shortcuts work here, too.

20. Log and Capture

21. Give Me Some Slack

22. Give Me Some Slack

23. Mark on the Fly

24. Logging Your Clips

25. Setting a Logging Bin Clips will be listed with the sequence in the Browser

26. Setting a Logging Bin

27. Setting a Logging Bin Create a Logging Bin: On the right of the Log Bin button, click the ‘New Bin’ button. A new Bin is created with the Slate icon next to the Bin identifying it as the target location for new clips.

28. Setting a Logging Bin Back up a step: On the right of the Log Bin button, click the ‘Up’ button. This takes the Log Bin destination up a level -- in this case back to the project level. The Slate is once again attached to the project.

29. Setting a Logging Bin Name & Assign the Bin: Close Log & Capture. Select the Bin and rename ‘Test Capture’ Control Click the Bin and select ‘Set Logging Bin’

30. Naming Your Clips

31. Naming Your Clips

32. Naming Your Clips

33. Naming Your Clips

34. Naming Your Clips Add some info: Type ‘tk4’ in the Shot/Take field and click on the checkbox next to it.

36. Naming Your Clips

37. Naming Your Clips Try it out: Click on the Slate button next to Shot/Take

38. Naming Your Clips

39. Adding Markers While Logging

40. How it Works

41. Adding Markers While Logging

43. Mark on the Fly Your mark in and out points will be reflected here. (ignore the 0’s – I did this without a deck)

44. Marking a Clip Check it out: Even though you may not be connected to a deck, try out the Set Marker function in the Logging tab.

45. Choosing Clip Settings

46. Choosing Clip Settings

47. Choosing Clip Settings

48. Choosing Clip Settings

49. Choosing Clip Settings

50. Choosing Clip Settings

51. Choosing Clip Settings Check it out: Click on the Clip Settings tab. Change the audio setting from stereo pair to mono. Turn off and on an audio channel. Note how you cannot turn off a channel in stereo.

52. Choosing Capture Settings

53. Choosing Capture Settings

54. Choosing Capture Settings

55. Choosing Capture Settings

56. Choosing Capture Settings

57. Choosing Capture Settings

58. Choosing Capture Settings If your drive is filling up, you can delete the project folders you no longer need.

59. Log and Capture Buttons

60. Log & Capture Methods

61. Log & Capture Methods

62. Log & Capture Methods

63. Log & Capture Methods

64. Log & Capture Methods

65. Log & Batch Capturing

66. Log & Batch Capturing

67. Log & Batch Capturing

68. Setting Capture Preferences If you are having trouble capturing off tape because it detects dropped frames and keeps quitting, turn off ‘Abort capture on dropped frames’ here and try again.

69. Setting Capture Preferences

70. Log & Transferring

71. Homework Nothing to submit this week – WA-HOO! Be sure you are comfortable setting the correct format for your footage with Easy Setup Be sure you know how to set your scratch disk Practice the Mark > DV Start/Stop with some of your long clips.

72. Lesson 8: Capturing and Transferring Footage Apple Pro Training Series Final Cut Pro 7 Instructor: Sam Edsall