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Apple Final Cut Express HD: Getting Started User Manual

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Chapter 3

Capturing Your Video

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Marking controls

You use these buttons to set the start and end frames (the In and Out points) to select
a part of your tape for capture.

Mark In: Click this button, or press I, to set the starting frame (the In point) of your
tape for capture.

Clip In Point timecode: Displays the timecode location of the current In point.

Go to In Point: Click this button, or press Shift-I, to cue the tape to the current In point.

Mark Out: Click this button, or press O, to set the end frame (the Out point) of your
tape for capture.

Clip Out Point timecode: Displays the timecode location of the current Out point.

Go to Out Point: Click this button, or press Shift-O, to cue the tape to the current
Out point.

Miscellaneous fields

Available space and time: Displays the amount of available space on the current
scratch disk and the amount of capture time available.

Timecode Duration field: Displays the duration of the section of tape you’ve marked
for capture, based on the In and Out points you marked. You can enter timecode
directly in this field to set a new duration from the In point. See “

Setting In and Out

Points

” on page 51.

Current Timecode field: Displays the timecode number of the currently displayed
frame of your source tape. You can enter timecode directly in this field to navigate to
that timecode point on your tape.

Go to In Point

Clip In Point

timecode

Mark In

Mark Out

Clip Out Point
timecode

Go to Out