Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 282)

Chapter 19 Capturing Your Footage to Disk 281
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Using the Make New Clip Option
When you choose Make New Clip from the “On timecode break” pop-up menu in the
User Preferences window, ordered and reset timecode breaks and timecode gaps are
handled in different ways. The pre-roll and post-roll values in the current device control
preset also affect how the In and Out points of the resulting clips are determined.
Ordered Timecode Breaks
When an ordered timecode break occurs, the video that’s already been captured is
saved in the logging bin in the Browser as a single clip, with its Out point at the frame
occurring immediately prior to the discontinuous timecode. Final Cut Pro then
continues to capture video after the timecode break to a second media file.
The In point of this second media file is calculated by adding the pre-roll duration to
the frame occurring immediately after the dropped timecode frame. The pre-roll
duration is taken into account so that if you ever try to recapture the clip, there is
enough acceptable video footage before the In point to allow for VTR pre-roll.
Clips captured after timecode breaks are named by combining the original name and
the number of the clip. For example, if the first captured clip’s name is “Cats Playing,”
the second clip’s name is set to “Cats Playing-1,” then “Cats Playing-2,” and so on.
If a timecode break occurs during the pre-roll period (before the clip’s specified In
point), Final Cut Pro moves the In point later to accommodate the currently specified
pre-roll duration from the timecode break point to the new In point. For example,
when a timecode break occurs within the default pre-roll duration of 3 seconds, the In
point is moved later:
Each time a timecode break occurs, Final Cut Pro continues to move the In point later
until there is enough continuous timecode to accommodate the In point in addition to
the duration of the pre-roll. This ensures that you will be able to recapture the clip
again later.
Pre-roll
Timecode break
Cats Playing-1 clip Cats Playing clip
00:01:00:00 00:01:10:00 00:01:13:00
Pre-roll
Timecode breaks New In point
Cats Playing-1 clip Cats Playing clip
00:01:00:00 00:01:10:00 00:01:11:00 00:01:14:00