• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  trying to capture with Prores and Canon HV20

  Posted by David Rodriguez on October 24, 2010 at 4:38 am

  Hello,

  I have been reading about benefits of Prores and i wanted to start testing. Unfortunally, when i connect my Canon HV20 and select in the audio and video settings the prores codec i get the error message that it is not able to initialize the camera.
  If i just change the capture preset to dv pal then it sees the camera and i can capture.
  I have never been able either to capture in HDV, only selecting Pal DV makes the camera active to be able to capture.
  I have read several posts in this forum with problems related with the HV20 and the replies but the possible tips i found and tried did not work.
  I wonder if somebody may have another tip to try.

  Thanks in advacned

  David

  David Rodriguez replied 15 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  October 24, 2010 at 4:41 am

  Firstly, an HDV camera has to be set to output HDV and not downconvert to DV. It sounds like you have the camera in downconvert mode.

  Secondly what version of FCP are you running.Older versions may not recognise that camera.

  Thirdly, have you searched this forum for the workflow to capture HDV as ProRes?
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  Jim Glickert

  October 24, 2010 at 5:19 am

  Hi David.

  I own an HV20 and capture HDV footage using ProRes. There was indeed a problem like what you describe that was discussed some months ago. I believe this was addressed in the FCP 7.0.3 update. Check out the release notes for this update:

  https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2521?viewlocale=en_US

  I think the pertinent item in the list of issues resolved that you’ll see is “Localized versions of Final Cut Pro now recognize HDV devices that use the 1080i60/1080i50 FireWire Basic Easy Setups.”

  My obvious question is whether you are using FCP 7.0.3.

  I noticed that when I received the “failure to initialize” message and simply clicked on “continue”, I was still able to able to Log and Capture. That is, the error message didn’t stop me. I’d be able to capture as normal, with FCP controlling the HV20 as expected.

  At this thread, trashing preferences proved to solve the problem:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1097703#1097745

  Hope this helps.

  Jim
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  David Rodriguez

  October 25, 2010 at 1:29 pm

  Hello,

  Thanks both for your replies. I guess my issue is related to having only 7.0 so i will update and try again since it is clearly stated in the release notes and all the rest with version 7.0 just does not work.

  Thanks again for your time to reply

  Regards

  David

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