Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 6)

6 Contents
182 Preparing to Capture
182 Organizing and Labeling Your Tapes
183 Logging Your Tapes
184 Choosing a Filenaming Scheme
184 Determining How Much Disk Space You Need
185 Capturing Individual Clips in the Capture Window
190 Using Capture Now
192 Automatically Creating Subclips Using DV Start/Stop Detection
193 Adding Markers to Clips in the Capture Window
193 Marker Controls in the Capture Window
194 Setting Markers
194 Recapturing Clips
195 Using Capture Project
197 About the Additional Items Found Dialog
198 Finding Your Media Files After Capture
198 Where Are Captured Media Files Stored?
199 Consolidating Media Files to One Folder
200 Modifying a Media File’s Reel Name Property
201 Avoiding Duplicate Timecode Numbers on a Single Tape
202 Logging Tapes with Duplicate Timecode Numbers
202 Avoiding Multiple Occurrences of the Same Timecode Number on a Single Tape
Chapter 15 205 Importing Media Files into Your Project
205 What File Formats Can Be Imported?
206 Importing Media Files
209 About Importing Video Files
211 About Importing Audio Files
214 Importing Still Images and Graphics
Chapter 16 219 Ingesting Media Files
219 About File-Based Media
220 Working with AVCHD Footage
222 Sample Media File Workflow
224 Working with the Log and Transfer Window
Chapter 17 233 Working with HDV
233 About HDV
234 HDV Formats Supported by Final Cut Express
234 About MPEG-2 Compression
236 HDV Apple Intermediate Codec Editing Workflow
236 Connecting an HDV Device to Your Computer
237 Choosing an Easy Setup
237 Capturing HDV Video to the Apple Intermediate Codec