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Capture Canon XHA1S on to MAC Pro for FCP
This will no doubt be very basic for many of of you guys so please be patient with a newbie … I have a MAC Pro (early 2009) with FCS3 and a new Canon XHA1S … when I try to connect it to the MAC (Firewire 400 – 800) neither FCP 7 nor iMovie 9 can see the camera. I have tried various HDV / DV settings absolutely nothing .. The camer knows it is connected t something as it will not let meake a change on the Video pLayback menu without disconnecting the Firewire cable. I am certain I am doing something fairly daft and basicalyy wrong so please point the obvious out ..All help gratefull received. I have tried dicnnecting all other Firewire device (Drobo etc) thhis too made no difference.
Jimkells
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HAs this ever worked for you at all? In previous versions of anything?
Your best get will be to google the camera model and slog through the thousands of hits you may get. There are hundreds of cameras, dozens form Canon alone, no one knows ’em all.
bogiesan
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Progress !! It turns out to be some kind of issue between the FW400 on the camera and the FW800 bus on my MAC Pro. When I connect it to my MBP which only has FW400 port I can get it to communicate and log and capture fine.
Jimkells
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Hi Jim,
I have just started using my new XHA1s, and hooked up to a very similar MBP 2.33.
Any chance you could pass along some basic info? I shoot some test footage using SD16:9 @60i, and captured with no probs as 720/480 3:2 DV footage. I am a little uncertain about whether I need to check the anamorphic checkmark.
Have you shot SD? or just HD?
Thanks for any advise or input you can offer! -
Soory I always capture in HD and down scale (compressor or DVDSP) if necessary but SD is becoming less and less. Most clients now want HD on Bluray. As for the anomprphc you have taken a wide screen footage and changed it into 3:2 so I would have thought yes to anamprphic check else you will loose parts ofthe image.
Jimkells
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