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Cannot capture HDV to FCP
Shooting with a little Canon Vixia HV30, I can only capture footage directly into iMovie, not into FCP. Is this a problem with my camera compatibility? I’d like to capture direct to FCP, but is there any other advantage to buying a capture card or deck for the purpose?
Chris Lund
Mac Pro, 2 x 2.66 GHz xeon dual core, 7GB RAM
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More info please.
What version of FCP?
What are your timeline settings?There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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After getting a response elsewhere, I discovered my main problem was not having matching settings – now that HD camcorder and FCP device control / capture / sequence settings are all HDV 30, I can import to FCP.
Which just leaves the question of whether there is any advantage to having a separate capture card or deck?
Chris Lund
Mac Pro, 2 x 2.66 GHz xeon dual core, 7GB RAM
MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz dual core, 4GB RAM -
Chris,
Can you tell me what settings you used?
I am having this problem.
I shot video using a Canon HV30 set at HDV30p. I cannot figure out any setting in FCP (6.0.6)
that will recognize the camera to import.When I use iMovie it immediately is ready to download, though it downloads at 720×480…
ANy help would be great.
Richard
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Richard,
Maybe some things I say won’t translate since I am using FCP 7, but I think I can help.
First of all, what is your Sequence preset? I’m gonna guess that because your filming at HDV 30 your under the false assumption that the HV30 can record at 720p. It can’t, if your footage is HD, its recording at 1440×1080. I’m also gonna go ahead and guess you’ve been trying to use progressive settings (720p30, 1080p30). This is probably your main problem, as I am pretty sure the HV30 can only record interlaced footage.
I would suggest you try setting your sequence preset to HDV – 1080i60Also, what is your device control preset at? This isn’t as important, but I personally use HDV FireWire Basic NDF (non drop frame) when I’m logging footage from my HV30.
Also, never forget to try simply rebooting your computer. There have been countless times where my settings weren’t working, and a reboot fixed the issue.
I had some similar problems to this when trying to log footage with FCP 5, and problems with FCP 5 force downconverting all my footage to 720×480. Ultimately my solution was to upgrade to FCP 7.
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Hi Adrian,
Thank you for responding to the question about capture from the Canon Vixia HDV30 to FCP6.
I did finally figure it out.
It was a problem I had with the camera setting. I was suspicious that the camera was saying
“DV” when I put it in Playback and tried to download. Essentially trying to download DV into
HDV settings. FCP6 was not happy with this. Canon tech support told me I had everything set
properly.Finally I did this: I had to unplug the FW cable from the camera, which only then allowed me to set the Playback/Capture to “HDV”. Once the setting was changed I plugged back in the FW connecting cable
and it worked.This time I wrote down the solution.
Thanks again for responding, and if anyone else has this problem maybe this thread will help them.
Best regards,
Richard
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im having a problem right now of using a Canon XH A1s (not mine) and the footage is capturing at 720×480 and I don’t know why. I have the capture setting set to DVCPRO HD 1080i60… its the only setting that seems to recognize the camera.. GAH! this is frustrating..
any ideas out there?
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Search this forum. Settings for HDV capture have been covered here hundreds of times, including that model canon.
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I’m sorry for the trouble. the rep on the phone at cannon told me to turn HD down conversion on to get output form the camera. I think that is where I went wrong.
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