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Chapter 19
Capturing Your Footage to Disk
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Automatically Creating Subclips Using DV Start/Stop
Detection
If you are using a DV format (DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, or DVCPRO HD), you may
be able to create subclips automatically from start/stop metadata that is embedded in
video frames each time you stop and start the camcorder. This DV start/stop metadata is
captured and stored in the media file. Final Cut Pro can identify the location of each start/
stop marker (sometimes referred to as an embedded flag) to automatically place markers
in a clip. These markers can then be used to create subclips.
Note: DV start/stop metadata is not timecode. It is independent time-of-day metadata
recorded within the video data of your footage. When the time-of-day information
jumps dramatically from one shot to the next, Final Cut Pro recognizes that the shot
has changed and can place a marker at that point in the clip.
About Automatic Filenaming During Capture Now
Unless you enter text in the Description field, Final Cut Pro automatically names
media files (and captured clips) using the following convention: Untitled, Untitled1,
Untitled2, and so on.
If you’re capturing a clip using the Capture Now command and the currently
specified name is already taken by a clip in the current Scratch Disk folder, the letter
or number at the end of the name is incremented. For example, if you use Capture
Now to capture a clip named “Office Clips1” and there’s already a clip in that project’s
Scratch Disk folder with the same name, the name is changed to “Office Clips2.” If
there is already a media file called “Office Clips A”, the current media file is called
“Office Clips B”.
Alphabetical incrementing occurs if the last letter is preceded by a separating
character such as a space, underscore, or dash. For example, “ClipName-A” is
incremented to “ClipName-B”, but “ClipNameA” is incremented to “ClipNameA1”. If the
last letter in the clip name is preceded by a number, both the number and letter are
incremented. For example, “ClipName-2Z” is followed by “ClipName-3A”.