This article describes how to log video with Final Cut Pro.

To log video with Final Cut Pro, you need a controllable video device.

Final Cut Pro logs shots by creating offline clips that it stores in a bin of your choice. When you complete logging, you can select the offline clips you want to capture and digitize them in a batch.

To log footage:
1. Make sure your video deck is properly connected and set to its remote setting.
2. Choose Log and Capture from the File menu.
3. Click the Logging tab.
4. Specify a logging bin (where offline clips are stored during logging) by Control-clicking the bin you want and choosing Set Logging Bin from the pop-up menu.
5. Type a name for the reel (the tape or other video source). Click the Slate button to have the program add a numeric reel name.
6. Name the clip in the Label box, or select Prompt if you want to name each clip as you log it (useful if you use keyboard shortcuts during logging).
7. Use the transport controls in the Log and Capture window to control your source deck and find the footage you want to log.

A - Shuttle Control: Drag to the right or left changes the speed of fast forward or rewind.
B - Rewind
C - Play In to Out
D - Stop
E - Play
F - Play Around Current
G - Fast Forward
H - Jog control: Drag to move frame by frame

• Click the Mark In and Mark Out buttons, or press "i" to set the In point and "o" to set the Out point.
• Enter specific timecodes (In on the left, Out on the right) in the timecode fields at the bottom of the Log and Capture window.

• If the Prompt option is on, click Log Clip and type a name. Type a note in the Log Note area to use for locating this clip quickly.
• If the Prompt option is off, click the Slate button next to the fields you want to increment, then click Log Clip.