• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  IS there any other HDV capture software for mac?

  Posted by Noizzz on January 15, 2008 at 5:24 pm

  Hello,

  i am having trouble capturing HDV, I am using OSX 10.4.11 and a Canon XH A1. I capture on RAID discs.
  When I use FCP 6.0.2 to capture, I get breaks, between 4 to 30 each hour, these breaks are about 5 sec of footage.
  Then I tried Imovie, wich can capture a whole tape at once, but the audio tends to unsync more and more to the end.
  (Also funny is that the Imovie codec results in files 3 times as large, not that this matters…)

  I’ve tried a lot of diff settings, nothing worked.

  Now I am looking for a diff application that can capture HDV, can anyone help me out?

  Thanx,
  NoiZ

  Chris Poisson replied 18 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Paul Escandon

  January 15, 2008 at 7:15 pm

  Yeah, there is a developer tool that Apple puts out called DVHSCap that lets you transfer the HDV stream directly. I had to use it to work with 60p footage from the JVC HD100 before Final Cut officially supported it.

  Check out this thread where we talked about it: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/962040

  There are some useful links in there to find out how to use that program as well.

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  Chris Poisson

  January 15, 2008 at 7:55 pm

  Read my tutorial on capturing ProRes vis Firewire.

  https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php

  Have a wonderful day.

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