Apple Final Cut Express 4 User Manual
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Part IV
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Click the Capture Now button.
Final Cut Express begins capturing your media file to your scratch disk. The Media Start
time of the resulting media file is the timecode number for the first frame
Final Cut Express detects after you click the Capture Now button.
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Press Esc (the Escape key) to stop capturing.
If you don’t press the Escape key, Final Cut Express automatically stops when:
 The end of the tape has been reached.
 The maximum amount of time in the Limit Capture Now To field has been reached.
Final Cut Express stops capturing the media file and creates a corresponding clip in the
current capture bin. The Media End time of the media file is the timecode number for
the last frame Final Cut Express detects after you press the Escape key.
Automatically Creating Subclips Using DV Start/Stop Detection
If you are using a DV format, 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 Express 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 Express recognizes that the
shot has changed and can place a marker at that point in the clip.
To break a long DV clip into subclips based on starts and stops:
1
Capture a long clip from a DV tape containing several starts and stops.
2
Do one of the following:
 Select the clip in the Browser.
 Open the clip in the Viewer.
3
With the Viewer active, choose Mark > DV Start/Stop Detect.
Note: If you have any exceptionally long clips, you can break these up further by
adding a few more markers manually. For more information, see Chapter 19, “
4
Switch the Browser to list view and locate the clip you were working on in the Viewer.
For more information, see “
5
Click the disclosure triangle to view the clip’s markers.