• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP and Canon XHA1 problems

  Posted by Phil Bloom on October 17, 2007 at 3:57 pm

  I’ve searched and searched and searched all over the place, and can’t seem to find a definitive answer to this problem. I am working with a Powerbook g4 15″ 1.25Ghz, FCP Studio 2, and all programs updated, and am trying to log/capture with the camera. FCP does not recognize the camera. Any help? iMovie HD does. Computer does. FCP does not.

  I’ve tried settings:

  Sequence: HDV – 1080i60
  Capture: HDV
  Device control: HDV Firewire

  Thanks for you input gang.

  Phil

  Angelo Ucciferri replied 16 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  October 17, 2007 at 4:38 pm

  Try HDV 1080i Firewire BASIC. that is the only way I have been able to get Canon cameras to work…firewire basic.

  Shane
  
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  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Phil Bloom

  October 17, 2007 at 5:53 pm

  Thanks. I’ve tried that, but no avail. If anyone got this to work, including you Shane, is there a specific way you got this to work? Camera first and then FCP? On the camera, I’m not sure if DV needs to be on or off? Also, we shot the footage in 24f. So do I still import at 1080i60?
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  Phil Bloom

  October 18, 2007 at 1:50 pm

  Ok, here’s the weird thing. If I set it to

  Sequence: HDV – 1080p24
  Capture: DV NTSC 48 kH Advanced (2:3:3:2) Pulldown Removal
  Device control: Firewire NTSC

  FCP recognizes the camera and will even allow me to capture? What gives?
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  Phil Bloom

  October 18, 2007 at 2:06 pm

  Got it figured out. I realized upon my previous post that somehow the computer was recognizing the camera as a DV camera and not an HD camera. Soooo…I check the manual on settings, and sure enough.

  From VTR mode, you need to go into Signal Setup. Set Playback Std as HDV, not Auto, set HD Down-Conv to OFF.

  Problem appears to be solved. All this time I kept going into record mode settings, and setting DV OFF/DV ON.

  Thanks. Hope this helps someone else.
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  Chris Poisson

  October 21, 2007 at 3:30 pm

  Phil,

  That is correct, it’s the playback standard FCP is persnickety about, it will capture fine, but I would recommend rolling tape also as a backup.

  Have a wonderful day.
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  Aaron Bernakevitch

  June 12, 2008 at 4:55 pm

  Hey Phil

  I was wondering if you knew why in the signal setup., My “playback” and “hdv- down conv” are greyed out, is there a setting I need to change inorder to do this.

  I am having the same issue where I cannot see any video in FCP, the camera is controlled by fw and reads the time code, But I cannot for the life of me get any video to appear. I have tried every setting.

  Thanks Phil

  Aaron
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  Angelo Ucciferri

  August 21, 2009 at 4:00 am

  Oh man….I know this frustration too well. It seems as though every time I try to capture, I have to deal with this crap! Can’t they just make this stuff work right the first time!

  So in addition to all the tips above, I have some others that have helped me with the battle between my xha1 & fcp6.

  – You have to make your playback std setting on the xha1 with the firewire unplugged. If there is a firewire cable plugged in, the setting is greyed out.
  – Even once all your settings are correct:
  – – Try power cycling the camera
  – – Restart FCP
  – – Re Mount the FW drive you are capturing through.

  All these tips have helped me, as well as the ones left by other users.

  Thanks,
  Angelo

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