Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 316)

• You captured clips at a low resolution for rough, offline editing, and now want to
recapture the clips at full resolution for your final sequence.
Recapturing is essentially the same as capturing. The only notable difference is that when
you recapture, there may already be a media file associated with a clip. When you recapture
media, you can replace the clip’s existing media file, or capture a new media file to a
different location by changing the path of the scratch disk. For more information, see
“Specifying Scratch Disks.”
To recapture your clips, simply follow the batch capturing steps described in “Batch
Capturing Clips.”
Recapturing Subclips
Subclips refer to portions of media files by using virtual subclip limits. When you tell
Final Cut Pro to capture a subclip, the subclip limits are ignored, and the entire duration
of the original media file is captured.
Recapturing Merged Clips
Merged clips are powerful because they allow you to group together a video media file
and multiple independent audio files within a single clip. This is especially useful for dual
system moviemaking, where video and audio come from separate sources and are
synchronized during post-production. A merged clip is a single clip in the Browser that
keeps these independent media files synced. When you recapture the media files for a
merged clip, you may have to make several capturing passes from different video and
audio sources.
Important: Generally, it’s best if all audio files referenced by merged clips are stored on
one scratch disk (preferably in the same folder).
For more information about merged clips, see “Merging Clips from Dual System Video
and Audio.”
Avoiding Duplicate Timecode Numbers on a Single Tape
If you aren’t careful during production, you can end up with duplicate timecode numbers
on your tape. Each time the camcorder is turned off and on again, there is a potential
that the camcorder will reset the timecode counter to zero. This is especially true when
working with consumer camcorders. For logging, capturing, and media management, a
tape with the same timecode number in two or more locations is very difficult to work
with.
316 Chapter 20 Advanced Topics in Capturing Tape-Based Media