Canon HX-G1 and BM Multibridge Eclipse Capture problems

[Bruce Fraser]

Can you provide more detail as to what is not working? Can you see the video when you use the camera without deck control? etc…

Bruce

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Jeffrey,

According to page 40 of the NTSC manual for the Canon XHG1, when you shoot in 24F Mode, “The video signal will be output from the HDV/DV terminal in 24 fps progressive mode. The signal output from the HD/SD SDI terminal and the COMPONENT OUT terminal will be down-converted to 60i….”

In reality, the 60i will almost definitely be 59.94i. It is very common for video hardware manufacturers to refer to “60i” because it’s easier than spelling out 1080i59.94.

In other words, try setting your timeline to Blackmagic 1080i59.94 and see if you can capture. Avoid using Firewire device control during this part of the test and simply capture to a Blackmagic 1080i59.94 timeline without device control. Once you can successfully capture your video, the next step will be to see if you can use device control with the camera.

Firewire device control might be tricky as the Firewire port should be outputting 24p whereas you are capturing your video at 59.94i. If you are using Final Cut Pro, use a Blackmagic HDTV 1080i59.94 easy setup to configure your project and then change the device control for the project to Firewire NTSC. Follow page 109 of your camera manual to enable down conversion on the Firewire output, ie “Set [PLAYBACK STD] to [HDV] and [HD DOWN-CONV] to [ON].” This should make the Firewire output provide a regular NTSC signal at 29.97 Hz which will match the Firewire NTSC device control setting in Final Cut Pro. A little trial and error might be required but I believe you should be able to make this work.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design