Problems importing videos

Will Davis · January 30th, 2008, 02:55 AM

Hey guys,

I am new to the forums and I am hoping that I am posting in the correct area. I own a small Panasonic NV-GS200 and my problem is, it drops frames when trying to import into FCP, this happens when I click on capture now.When I press capture clip it says that "Capture Clip requires In and out points to be set". I am on a new Macbook Pro, although I had the same problem on my iMac.

How I use to get around this would be by capturing the videos in iMovie and dragging and dropping them into my project, it had no problems finding the beginning and end of a clip. Although now I cannot do this because of the new iMovie program being difficult.

Here are some screenshots showing you what is happening.

http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/403...5265463_rs.jpg

http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/406...1173018_rs.jpg

http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/431...9699715_rs.jpg

Matt Stahley · January 30th, 2008, 12:26 PM

you need to hit the NOW button to capture clip without setting in and out points.

Will Davis · January 30th, 2008, 02:37 PM

Sorry, I meant to say when I press Capture Now it drops frames ocasionally and when it doesn't it only uploads one continuous clip rather then serperating them into the individual clip.

Aric Mannion · January 30th, 2008, 04:02 PM

I believe people used to have a problem dropping frames due to a glitch with "spotlight". You might want to search spotlight and dropped frames on this forum. Obviously you can't capture with frames dropping, you can check to ignore dropped frames though in: Final cut pro>preferences. But keep trying to fix it first!

January 30th, 2008, 02:55 AM	#1
Will Davis New Boot Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: NSW Australia Posts: 6	Problems importing videos - FCP 5.1 Hey guys, I am new to the forums and I am hoping that I am posting in the correct area. I own a small Panasonic NV-GS200 and my problem is, it drops frames when trying to import into FCP, this happens when I click on capture now.When I press capture clip it says that "Capture Clip requires In and out points to be set". I am on a new Macbook Pro, although I had the same problem on my iMac. How I use to get around this would be by capturing the videos in iMovie and dragging and dropping them into my project, it had no problems finding the beginning and end of a clip. Although now I cannot do this because of the new iMovie program being difficult. Here are some screenshots showing you what is happening. http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/403...5265463_rs.jpg http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/406...1173018_rs.jpg http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/431...9699715_rs.jpg

January 30th, 2008, 12:26 PM	#2
Matt Stahley Major Player Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Waynesboro, PA Posts: 648	you need to hit the NOW button to capture clip without setting in and out points.

January 30th, 2008, 02:37 PM	#3
Will Davis New Boot Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: NSW Australia Posts: 6	Sorry, I meant to say when I press Capture Now it drops frames ocasionally and when it doesn't it only uploads one continuous clip rather then serperating them into the individual clip.

January 30th, 2008, 04:02 PM	#4
Aric Mannion Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 616	I believe people used to have a problem dropping frames due to a glitch with "spotlight". You might want to search spotlight and dropped frames on this forum. Obviously you can't capture with frames dropping, you can check to ignore dropped frames though in: Final cut pro>preferences. But keep trying to fix it first!