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Import spanned clips
Some le-based camcorders or devices that have more than one memory card slot can
record one shot over multiple memory cards. The resulting shot is called a spanned clip.
A good way to import a spanned clip into Final Cut Pro is to attach your camera or
card reader to your local system and create a camera archive for each memory card.
You can store the camera archives on your local system or on an external storage
device until you are ready to import the spanned clip. (Even if you are importing the
spanned clip immediately, it’s useful to make the camera archive so you have a backup
of the footage that makes up the spanned clip.) Then, when you’re ready to import,
you can mount all of the camera archives and import the spanned clip.
Create a camera archive for each memory card
1 Connect your camcorder or camera to your computer and turn it on, or connect your
card reader and memory card to your computer. If you’ll be saving the camera archives
to an external storage device, connect that as well.
2 In Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
Choose File > Import from Camera (or press Command-I). Â
Click the Import from Camera button on the left end of the toolbar. Â
The Camera Import window appears.
3 Select a memory card to archive from the list of cameras on the left.
4 Click the Create Archive button at the bottom-left corner of the window.
5 In the “Create Camera Archive as” eld, type a name for the archive.
6 Choose a location to save the archive from the Destination pop-up menu, and click OK.
Note: It is recommended that you save your archive to a disk or partition dierent
from the one where you store the media les used with Final Cut Pro.
7 Repeat steps 3-6 to create camera archives for each of the memory cards that contain
a portion of the spanned clip.
The camera archives appear in the Camera Archives list in the Camera Import window.
See “Create and manage camera archives” on page 488 for more information about
creating camera archives.
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