Got hold of Final Cut Express over the weekend, and am now starting to capture footage from the 9 hours worth of video I digitized last month. Tried doing it on Chandra's iBook last night & didn't have much luck, so today I've moved on to my desktop machine. Turns out there seems to be some sort of glitch in tape 1 at about 53 seconds in, which is what put the laptop into such a tizzy. The same thing happened to my desktop, much to my annoyance. So...reboot...fast-forward past the glitch & try again. Everything seems okay so far.
The real trick is going to be trying to cut the footage down to a reasonable amount so that we can work with it without having to purchase another hard drive. I'm going on the assumption that it will be quicker to do wholesale capture & then edit down the resulting file, rather than try to mark ins & outs then importing select clips. The camera's slow to respond, so every stop, rewind, play adds a couple seconds to a process that's going to be tedious enough as it is.
So anyway, looks like a good portion of the day today will be devoted to figuring out the logistics of working with Final Cut Express. Always fun to learn about new toys...
Posted by Jason at July 21, 2003 10:20 AM