Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors, Fourth Edition

Lesson 5. Capturing and Transferring

Goals

Explore the Log and Capture window

Explore the Log and Transfer window

View and mark source material

View, mark, and transfer clips

Select clip settings

Select capture settings and preferences

Set the target bin

Log clips

Capture clips

Batch capture

Customize preferences and clip names

In Avid, the term digitize originally meant converting analog video and audio into digital media files. Over time, converting tape to media files came to be known in Avid as recording or capturing. And now, with so many available options for card-based cameras, you simply transfer files that are already in digital format. In Final Cut Pro, your two ingest options are capturing and transferring. Both systems can digitize ...