Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 292)

Chapter 17 Capturing Your Footage to Disk 291
IV
 Abort Capture: If you choose this option, Final Cut Pro stops capture immediately
after a break is detected. All media captured before the timecode break has
frame-accurate timecode and is preserved. The resulting media file is saved and
its representative clip is placed in the Browser.
 Warn After Capture: If this option is selected, timecode breaks are reported after
capture and the media file with the timecode break is preserved. It is unwise to use
such a clip unless you have no choice, because timecode breaks result in incorrect
timecode from the timecode break forward, and will make it difficult to accurately
recapture your media.
Using the Make New Clip Option
When you choose Make New Clip from the “On timecode break” pop-up menu in the
User Preferences window, ordered and reset timecode breaks and timecode gaps are
handled in different ways. The pre-roll and post-roll values in the current device control
preset also affect how the In and Out points of the resulting clips are determined.
Ordered Timecode Breaks
When an ordered timecode break occurs, the video that’s already been captured is
saved in the logging bin in the Browser as a single clip, with its Out point at the frame
occurring immediately prior to the discontinuous timecode. Final Cut Pro then
continues to capture video after the timecode break to a second media file.
The In point of this second media file is calculated by adding the pre-roll duration to
the frame occurring immediately after the dropped timecode frame. The pre-roll
duration is taken into account so that if you ever try to recapture the clip, there is
enough acceptable video footage before the In point to allow for VTR pre-roll.
Clips captured after timecode breaks are named by combining the original name and
the number of the clip. For example, if the first captured clip’s name is “Cats Playing,”
the second clip’s name is set to “Cats Playing-1,” then “Cats Playing-2,” and so on.
Pre-roll
Timecode break
Cats Playing-1 clip Cats Playing clip
00:01:00:00 00:01:10:00 00:01:13:00