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Capturing witn Sony HVR-M15U
I am editing on Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and capturing from a Sony HVR-M15u recorder deck. The recorder allows me to do a DV capture but not an HDV capture. I’ve tried everything by the book but nothing seems to work. I tried capturing from my SonyZ1U and it works. So I know there is some setting in my deck that needs to be changed. Anybody, any ideas?
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This issue is not unique to any particular camera from what I can tell. It is a problem with Vista 64 and the IEEE 1394 Firewire native Windows driver.
I have a 64-bit Vista Home Premium PC, a Sony HDR-HC9 HD camcorder and I use Sony Vegas Pro 8.1 64-bit edition.
The issue appears to be the video signal on the iLink/IEEE interface from the camera, as detected (not detected) in the driver.
I have been working with Sony camera support for several months and just today they duplicated my configuration in their U.S. labs and found that they, too, could not capture footage.
I was playing around a bit with my software, with Windows Movie Maker 64-bit, and finally got some ERRATIC capture behavior, where in one case I was able to capture HDV footage but only if I manually started the camera and then engaged the Vegas HDV Capture utility.
Alas, it only worked once and then I could not duplicate the steps to repeat a successful capture.
Sony suspects this to be the driver that is included in Vista 64, as I noted, and I have been putting pressure on them to put pressure on Microsoft to examine this problem.
There are postings all over the Internet about people having this problem but no real solutions…only blind luck.
If I come up with anything I’ll post back here, and if any of you would do the same, it will help all of us.
The advantages to video rendering in 64-bit Vista far outweigh any idea of rolling back to 32-bit Windows, where HDV capture on XP or Vista work perfectly. I have had to capture my HDV footage on 32-bit (old machine) and then transfer the files to the 64 bit machine for editing and final rendering. This costs 2x time compared to capture and edit (tape based camera), but is still better than capture and edit on pure 32-bit machines.
Good luck! (this posting is an identical copy to another thread of the same issue).
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Thanks, David. I do have an older machine running on 32-bit and will try your solution.
I am editing on Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and capturing from a Sony HVR-M15u recorder deck. The recorder allows me to do a DV capture but not an HDV capture. I’ve tried everything by the book but nothing seems to work. I tried capturing from my SonyZ1U and it works. So I know there is some setting in my deck that needs to be changed. Anybody, any ideas?
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I don’t know if you found the answer to this one, but there is multiple places in the menu of the VTR itself that need to be set right. I’ve been working with this for the last 4 hours trying to find it, and I just found the spot that was causing me problems.
From the transfer menu in the deck, select the I.Link Set and turn it off, that automaticly down converts HDV to DV…
Thanks!
–James
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