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Overview of Logging
and Capturing
You can log your tapes to create clips, or regions of your
videotape that you want to use in your movie. Then you
can capture your clips as media files on disk.
This chapter covers the following:
 What Are Logging and Capturing? (p. 225)
 Ways to Log and Capture Footage in Final Cut Pro (p. 226)
 Learning About the Log and Capture Window (p. 229)
 Are You Ready to Log and Capture? (p. 235)
What Are Logging and Capturing?
In Final Cut Pro, logging and capturing are two separate, but related, tasks. When a
movie production wraps, the raw footage is delivered to the editor in relatively lengthy
tapes, or reels. During the logging process, the editor reviews each tape, identifying the
useful portions to be captured to the hard disk for editing. Timecode In and Out points
are used to identify each portion.
Logging tapes is a critical step in every movie project. After you create clips by logging,
you capture the regions of tape defined by the clips to media files on disk. Clips in your
project represent the captured media files on a hard disk, but they are not the actual
media files.
Note: Although videotape is still the predominant acquisition media format for
camcorders, nonlinear media, such as optical discs, Flash RAM, and hard disks are
becoming increasingly common. You may also be using film, but in most cases the film
is first transferred to videotape or other media previously mentioned. For simplicity, this
book generally refers to acquisition media as videotape.