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Capture and device control settings
I’m trying to capture HDV clips from a Sony deck in DVC PRO HD. FCP 6 tells me that if I choose Sony HDV firewire device control, I have to choose HDV capture. How do I capture in DVC PRO HD and still get firewire device control?
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro 2.66 quad 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
FCP 6 -
3 Replies
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You can do it via analog component if you have a setup that will accept that. Set the deck to downconvert to DV over iLink then use the appropriate machine control setting, NTSC or PAL Firewire. The analog component outputs will remain HD and your machine control will be done over Firewire.
There’s an excellent White Paper about this on the AJA site, and numerous threads on this forum describing the process.
Regards,
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David,
Many thanks. The point I had missed was setting the deck’s i-Link to Down-Convert and choosing NTSC firewire in the FCP setup. Now it works. But I get a warning that I am capturing DF material to a NDF project. Is there a way to fix this? I tried setting my deck to NDF but that doesn’t work (I suspect the menu item refers to recording mode).
Alfred Guzzetti
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.4.9
FCP 6.0 -
[Alfred Guzzetti] “I tried setting my deck to NDF but that doesn’t work (I suspect the menu item refers to recording mode). “
Hi Alfred,
Yes, you’re correct, the menu is for setting the form of timecode for recording. In playback mode the deck will pass whatever flavor of code the tapes were recorded with. Sounds like yours are drop frame.
You can change the timecode flavor of your sequence to match the media files. Take a look at volume 1, page 26 of the manual.
Regards,
David
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