{"id":426,"date":"2011-09-07T07:55:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=426"},"modified":"2011-09-07T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:36:16","slug":"log-and-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2011\/log-and-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Log and Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up through the mid-&#8217;00s, we used to capture footage in realtime from tape.  If you think about it, &#8220;capture&#8221; is an exciting and dangerous sort of word which implies you&#8217;re getting a hunting party together and it might come back empty-handed.  Now we &#8220;ingest&#8221; footage by copying it in non-realtime (that is, faster than) from memory cards and hard drives&#8230;which to me suggests a much more relaxing process, one that happens after a nice meal.  However, it&#8217;s a bit of an arcane process in Final Cut:<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1.<\/b>  Choose <b>File<\/b> \/ <b>Log and Transfer<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap01.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2.<\/b>  Click this obscure icon to import files.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap02.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 3.<\/b> Click this other obscure icon to view your <b>Preferences<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap03.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 4.<\/b>  Check to see if your camera shoots <b>&#8220;24pa&#8221; or &#8220;24psf&#8221; video<\/b>.  If so, you&#8217;ll need <a href=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2011\/reverse-telecine-24p\/\">these extra steps<\/a>.  (Traditional camcorders are more likely than DSLRs to have this issue.)  <b>ProRes<\/b> is a good default choice for your video codec.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap04b.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 5.<\/b>  Select the clips you want to transfer, or else choose <b>Edit<\/b> \/ <b>Select all<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap05.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 6.<\/b> When you&#8217;ve made your selections, choose <b>Add Selection to Queue<\/b> to begin transferring.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap06.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 7.<\/b> Once you&#8217;ve transferred your clips, click on your <b>Sequence<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap07.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 8.<\/b> Go to <b>Sequence<\/b> \/ <b>Settings<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap08.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 9.<\/b> The default settings probably won&#8217;t be what you want, so click <b>Load Sequence Preset<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap09.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 10.<\/b> Most modern cameras in North America will work nicely with <b>Apple ProRes 422 1920&#215;1080 24p 48KHz<\/b> as your preset.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap10.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 11.<\/b> After loading the preset, your settings should look like this.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/avchd_cap11.png\"border=1 vspace =5\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and you should be ready to edit.  Be sure to back up your original video files!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up through the mid-&#8217;00s, we used to capture footage in realtime from tape. If you think about it, &#8220;capture&#8221; is an exciting and dangerous sort of word which implies you&#8217;re getting a hunting party together and it might come back empty-handed. Now we &#8220;ingest&#8221; footage by copying it in non-realtime (that is, faster than) from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}