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Can’t log with Canon XH A1
I see this has been covered a few times here, but still can’t figure out what voodoo is necessary to make my HDV camera behave appropriately.
So I’m in the unfortunate position of having to capture to a non-FW drive — I’ve tried both USB and capturing direct to the internal drive since my camera is using my FW port. (For editing, I switch everything to a FW800 drive after it’s been captured. I haven’t noticed any issues with the final footage.)
When I captured using this setup and the HDV capture preset and HDV Firewire control preset, I got a logging window where I could set useful clip properties. For this project I’m capturing using ProRes 422. CMD-8 just gives me a dialog for naming the clip and then starts capturing.
This isn’t the end of the world as I do very little logging. But it’s still a minor pain to add things like Reel to the clips after they’ve been captured. Does anyone know why this happens and whether I can avoid it?
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Tom,
What you have discovered is the way that capturing HDV to Firewire on the fly works. There’s no standard logging and clips are all pretty much captured automatically, from camera start to camera stop.
BTW, since a transcode is actually accomplished in the process, and since that doesn’t actually happen in realtime (you’ll even notice FCP issues a warning on-screen about the delay), this makes it one of the few times that capturing to USB might never be a problem.
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