Log & Transfer or Log & Capture?

Log and Capture is the tool to capture from TAPE.

Log and Transfer is the tool to capture from TAPELESS MEDIA, like P2, Compact Flash, SD cards.

Unless you log the tape first...break up the tape into chunks. This is something Final Cut Express didn't do. Final Cut Pro allows you to watch the tape, make in and out marks, make clips that you capture later. So you only capture what you want, and you can break the tape up by scene and take, or by subject matter. So you can log all the clips first, then Batch Capture. Look this up in the manual, it's all laid out.

Now, why won't the college let you edit with a single file? That makes no sense. YOu can also make SUBCLIPS of that single file. Mark IN and OUT on the file, then Make Subclip (CMD-U). name those what you want. they will be individual clips, but they all point to the single file.

NLEs are different. They do things differently. Because one does something doesn't mean that another will.

You log the clips BEFORE you capture. Mark in and outpoints, log the clip...it makes a clip with a red strikethrough on it. Then when you are done, highlight the clips and hit BATCH CAPTURE.

Now...if there are timecode breaks (camera turned off) in the middle of a clip, that clip won't capture. You'll have to log around that break. But it sounds like the tape doesn't have any, so you should be fine.

Typically it happens when you review footage and stop AFTER the footage ends. Typically it doesn't happen, even if you remove the battery...on most cameras. Some cameras did cause a break at that time. Most often not.

Recording in FREE RUN timecode...that'll really cause issues. I hate when camera ops do that. Unless they have LONG takes, and are using it to keep multiple cameras in sync. But short takes...ugh. I want to strangle them.