Capture Clip Feature in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

" Hi this is CJ South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I'm going to show you the capture clip feature in final cut pro. Okay, time to go over my personal favorite way to capture: the capture clip method. Like I said before, I like more control over my clips, and this is control right here. You can basically set a specific portion that you'll want to capture, and you can set it and leave it and go. We capture, now you have to be there so you can hit escape to make it stop but, with capture clip it will automatically start where you want it to start and stop where you want it to stop. So its very powerful, especially when you have all the things to do, which I do all the time and I'm sure you do as well. So now to make capture clip work you have to set a in and a out point on your footage. I briefly showed that earlier, so I will show you again. Just go ahead and click the play button to play your footage. Then you can hit this button to the left here called mark in. you can hit that to make a in point or you can hit 'I' on your keyboard to make an in point, and then come to the right here and click the mark out button, or just click 'O' on your keyboard. Go ahead and stop that. Now as you can see my in point was set at whatever the footage was when it was running; as soon I found that spot I hit the 'I' key, and whatever the time code was in that moment is now frozen at my in mark. Same with the out. Out is now frozen at whatever I hit the 'O' key at or I clicked the button there. So now you have this space, this area in between these two time codes that you want to capture. If you look in the upper left corner, you can see where this is the duration is. So my clip is going to be 8.15 seconds: 8 seconds and 15 frames. So now to capture that footage, I just go ahead and I'll click the clip button and the log clip comes up. Now it is going to ask you what is the name, and a default to the name that you have put over in the description. So you can rename it here if you want, but I recommend leaving it at whatever the description was when you named it. You can put a note too but don't worry about it, just go ahead and click okay. Now what it does is now it cues your tape back to that first time code that you set your in point, and it will play and capture through the out point that you set. So when it is all said and done, all you will get is that portion that you wanted and it will throw it into your bin, your browser window, as it is doing right now—it is capturing that section. Then it hit a time code break; that happens. My skills as a cameraman sometimes suck. So we'll capture and put into your browser and that is all there is to it. And you can continue to do that, to capture a specific section that you want in your footage. "