• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Trouble Capturing HDV footage

  Posted by Noel Powell on September 21, 2007 at 11:17 pm

  I’ve been trying to figure this out for hours but to no avail. Please help!

  I’m using Final Cut Pro 5 with the latest version of OS X on a newer iMac. I shot some 1080i footage with my new Canon XHA1 and have it hooked up to the mac with a 4-pin to 6-pin Firewire 400 cable. I used the HDV-1080i60 Easy Setup option. When I open the Log and Capture window, I can control the camera functions from the computer but I can’t preview the footage in the window. Also, I can capture the footage (I have to use the viewfinder to preview it as it captures), but when I drag the clip to my timeline, it comes in un-rendered and has a different aspect ratio than my canvas (a little shorter). I can’t even watch the clip without doing a very time-consuming render. I’ve changed the canvas aspect ratio to every available shape in the Sequence Settings box, hoping it would solve the render problem, but there’s no match. Any ideas?

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  Noel Powell

  September 22, 2007 at 4:09 pm

  NVM. I started a new project and it worked this time! I have no idea what went wrong…
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  13

  September 23, 2007 at 6:22 am

  [nopow] “NVM. I started a new project and it worked this time! I have no idea what went wrong… “

  I will tell you what was wrong. If you change the easy set up, you MUST create a new project in order for it to have the properties of the easy set up. Doing the Easy set up douse not change the properties on a project currently open. That is why you were required to render.

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