1. Getting Ready to Capture
Your entire project takes its organizational, technical, and quality cues from how you capture your video. Although you can always change where files are stored or change their file names, it's a whole lot easier to spend a few extra minutes at the beginning of a project getting your system set up properly, rather than spending days later in your project trying to convert everything into the proper format.In this exercise, you'll learn how to set key Final Cut preferences.
| 1. | Open Final Cut Pro. Although you don't need to open a project file for this exercise, if no project is open, choose File > New Project.Final Cut has four main preference screens: Easy Setup Audio/Video Preferences System Settings User Preferences
Let's take a quick look through all of them, to make sure your system is ready to capture. | | 2. | Choose Final Cut Pro HD > Easy Setup.The Easy Setup dialog gives you a single, simple location to set all your audio and video preferences for DV or any other format. | | 3. | Click the Setup For menu. Choose the video format you want to use for this project. If you are in North America, choose DV-NTSC; elsewhere, the DV-PAL option is the best choice. However, Final Cut can handle a whole lot more video formats than just those eight. Click the Show All check box, then reselect the Setup For menu. Forty-two different video formats are available, and capture card vendors provide even more.Generally, my recommendation is to match the setup for your project with the video format of your camera.When you select an Easy Setup, Final Cut uses that choice to set a vast range of technical preference settings, which affect sequences, media capture, video deck control, and video and audio playback. | | 4. | Choose Final Cut Pro HD > Audio/Video Settings.[View full size image] The Audio/Video Settings dialog illustrates the five major areas controlled via Easy Setup. | | 5. | Click the Video Playback menu. This controls where you see the video playback from Final Cut. If you intend to have your camera or deck connected to the computer, set this to Apple FireWire NTSC (for North America) or Apple FireWire PAL (for outside North America). If you don't intend to have a deck or camera connected, be sure to set this to None. | | 6. | Click the Audio Playback menu. This controls where you hear the audio playback from Final Cut. If you have your speakers connected to your camera or deck, set this to FireWire DV; otherwise, set it to Built-in Audio.
NOTE | Monitoring Audio and Video
It is important to monitor your audio and video from the same place. If you are watching your video on your computer screen, set your audio to Built-In Audio. If you are watching your video on a monitor connected to your camera or deck, set audio playback to FireWire DV.If you listen to your audio on the computer and watch it on a monitor connected to your camera or deck (or vice versa), the audio and video will be 4 to 8 frames out of sync. (That is, their lips are moving earlier or later than when you hear the sound.) Apple simplified this in FCP HD by adding a new menu to the View menu. Now the last choice is Audio Playback. To minimize your headaches, leave this set to Audio Follows Video.As an additional note, if you change your video playback settings, or connect a new device, choose View > Refresh A/V Devices (or press Option+F12) so that FCP will recognize the change. |
[View full size image] | | 7. | From the Audio/Video Settings > Summary screen, click the Sequence Presets tab. This illustrates the large number of presets and settings that Final Cut uses to make your video look great.
WARNING | Don't Mess with the Presets!
It is entirely possible to change only one setting file and Final Cut will stop working. If you don't know what you are doing, please be very, VERY careful in changing these. I spend a lot of my consulting time traveling to various clients and resetting settings changed by an overly inquisitive editor. My accountant likes these trips.If you are shooting and editing DV, there is no reason to change these presetsexcept if you are shooting Anamorphic DV (see the Appendix for more information on this format). |
| | 8. | Click Cancel to close the Audio/Video Settings window.Chapter 1, "Get Organized." However, before the start of every project, I open it and make sure all my settings are correct. This is a good habit for you to get into as well. | | 10. | Chapter 8, "TransitionsMaking Change Beautiful." Additionally, I want to point out that this screen contains the menu setting for what to do on a timecode break. Timecode breaks are the bane of our existence. In the past, when Final Cut Pro tripped over a timecode break, it would just stop the capture and stand there, pouting. Now, instead, Final Cut gives you three choices when it senses a timecode break:Make a New Clip:
FCP closes the current clip it is recording to disk, creates a new file, gives it a new reel number (by incrementing the old reel number by one), creates a new file name (by incrementing the old file name by one), recues the tape as close to the timecode break as possible, and starts capturing the new clip, starting about 3 seconds after the break. Best of all, this is all done automatically.Abort Capture:
Here, Final Cut stops immediately after it senses a break and waits for instructions from you. Nothing gets recorded to the disk.Warn After Capture:
Chapter 4, "Build Your Story." | | 16. | Click OK when you are done making changes. | | 17. | One last point. There are two options in the File menu that relate to the User Preferences dialog: Revert Project and Restore Project.Revert Project cancels your current project, though giving you the ability to save your changes, and loads the last version of the project that you saved to disk.Restore Project cancels your current project, though giving you the ability to save your changes, and opens a dialog listing all the different versions of the project saved in the Autosave Vault, sorted from most recent at the top to oldest at the bottom. | | 18. | You are now done with this exercise. If you are done using Final Cut, choose Final Cut Pro HD> Quit ; otherwise, choose File > Close Project and don't save changes. |
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