Cannot capture HDV via Firewire

[Jon Barrie]

You are capturing HDV yes? When its capturing it won’t show the video on the capture screen. It’s telling you to watch the video through the camera (hardware) not the capture screen on the computer. This is normal for CS3.
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[Paul Patton]

Your timecode counter in premiere should be moving as well

[Eddie Lotter]

As a test, set your camocrder to DV mode, create a new test DV project and capture. Does the capture succeed?

Cheers
Eddie

[Georg Von sperling]

Thank you Jon for your response. That is certainly my experience. The problem is that the output of the capture is “.mp3”, not avi or mpg – the file produced is only megabytes in size and cannot be played back. I can capture in DV mode (as Eddie Lotte suggested in this thread), but that only gives 720p output and I want 1080i.

[Georg Von sperling]

Thank you Paul. The timecode counter is certainly moving.

[Georg Von sperling]

Hi Eddie,

Yes, that test succeeds, but the captured AVI file is only 720p. I have double-checked that the video was captured in 1080i (properties of the video on the camera). I’m thinking that I’m missing a codec perhaps. What are your thoughts?

Thank you.

[Eddie Lotter]

Okay, so we have determined that capturing is indeed possible. Good.

Now create a new HDV project (using the applicable preset) and try to capture a short section of your tape.

Cheers
Eddie

[Georg Von sperling]

Hi Eddie,

I used the same profile and switched from “DV Capture” to “HDV Capture”. I can still control my camera, and click “Record”, but it shows that it’s recording to “Clip 1.mp3” (instead of “Clip 1.avi”). When I hit stop, I don’t get the popup to enter information about the clip – nothing. Any ideas?

Cheers for all your help.

[Eddie Lotter]

[Georg von Sperling] “I used the same profile”

I’m not sure what you mean by this. It sounds like you stayed within the same project.

I’m suggesting you create a new HDV project and do a short, test capture.

Cheers
Eddie

[Philippe Chavinier]

Hello,

I have the same problem the (output screen in the capture panel) capturing from a CANON XH A1.
The only difference between your issue and mine is that the mpeg file is correctly created, at the right format and I can edit it in the time line.
I’ve created a new project using the HDV 1080i50 (I live in France) parameters and everything works fine except the capture.
The workaround I’ve found is the use of a freeware (HDVSplit), which displays correctly pictures being captured AND can split footages according timecode sequences.

Hope this can help you.