any way to make FCP capture from USB2?

[Shane Ross]

Tapeless formats can use USB, because they are converting as they come in, or you are copying the information off of the card onto a hard drive as backup. Firewire is for tape formats like DV, HDV and DVCPRO HD. Tapeless can use USB all they want…it isn’t streaming video, but rather data transfer.

Shane

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[Chris Martin]

We want to Capture and Log each shot directly into Final Cut Express (Final Cut Pro if I have to) as we record. So we can immediately replay the shot to see if we like it without having to do it from the camera. I do not want to record 10 shots then have to transfer then from the card or HD to the machine, Log and Transfer and then watch them. I want to use Final Cut to control the camera, record, Log right in Final Cut.

With the camera we have when you plug it in Final Cut Express see’s it and I can Log and Transfer the files that have been recorded, but I cannot record or control the camera from within Final Cut Express.

I do not know if this is a driver issue with the camera being new, It will not work with Final Cut Express but will with final Cut Pro? I do not have a copy of Final Cut Pro to try it with.

The Apple Store was not help other than they said final Cut Express would not work with Log and Capture and USB. But with most camera’s moving to USB that does seem right either.

Hope this makes sense.

[Pj Wassermann]

Would you be so kind to tell me HOW I capture from a Canon HF100 via USB into FCP? What kind of settings?

Maybe there’s a link to setByStep guide.

Thanks alot
PJ Wassermann

PJ Wassermann

[Pj Wassermann]

Nobody here to give me an answer?

kind regards

PJ Wassermann

[Shane Ross]

[PJ Wassermann] “Canon HF100 via USB into FCP? What kind of settings? “

You use LOG AND TRANSFER…and you can import as PRO RES or Apple Intermediate Codec.

Shane

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[Pj Wassermann]

Thank you very much.

PJ Wassermann

[Allen Roulston]

I just dug out an old 8mm camcorder and popped in a tape which I can play (yippie) via a RCA jack into a DAZZLE video creator which outputs “something” via USB plug.

I’ve been playing around trying to figure out how to get FCP to “see” the data stream.

Should I give up, or is it possible to capture the data stream of AVI video ?

Thank you,
~ Allen

[Doug Sweetser]

Under file there are two ways to get data from a videocam:
apple 8, log and capture
shift apple 8: log and transfer

Those are really similar names I had ignored. I always used apple 8, log and capture for my firewire digital camera. When I hook up a camera that uses USB for file transfers, it never worked.

USB devices use shift apple 8: log and transfer.

The way I am interpreting these names is that the “log” part means final cut now knows about this bit of media, where it starts, where it stops, where it is in the file system. For firewire, the data gets captured because the output can be controlled via play, pause, forward and reverse. For the increasingly common USB-only devices, a file must be transferred as a unit. Editing will happen later.