Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 288)

Chapter 17 Capturing Your Footage to Disk 287
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Using a Non-Controllable Device for Capture
When a device-controllable camcorder or deck is not available or device control is not
enabled, the Log and Capture window no longer has transport controls, and only the
Capture Now button is available.
The steps for capturing without device control are the same steps for capturing using
Capture Now. The only important difference is that you need to choose the device
control preset for a non-controllable device.
To choose a device control preset for a non-controllable device:
m Click the Capture Settings tab, then choose Non-Controllable Device from the Device
Control pop-up menu.
To capture a clip without device control, see “ Capturing an Entire Tape Using Capture
Now ” on page 281.
Capturing Video and Audio Separately
When you capture video and audio to separate files, two media files are saved on your
hard disk, but the clips appear in your project as merged clips. Capturing your video
and audio as separate files allows you to divide the workload between two scratch
disks, maximizing the performance of each scratch disk you’re using so that you can
capture your video at the highest-possible data rate. Video and audio files captured as
separate files have the same name, with “_v” appended to video files and “_a”
appended to audio files. The files are also captured to two separate folders named
Capture Scratch and Audio Capture Scratch, respectively.
If you aren’t using device
control, the Log and
Capture window is
simplified.