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capturing dv
Hi,
I am trying to capture some mini-dv footage from a canon camcorder via firewire but FCP just doesnt seem to recognise my player. Funnily enough the remote deck controls works in the log and capture window but no sound or image is coming at all and it sais that the playback firewire is missing… do you think it could be a defective dv-firewire cable.. although I have been using regularly?
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8 Replies
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i just had a similar problem. check in your “about this mac” under “more info” and look at your firewire port. if you see your camera recognized there as a device , that means that your computer at least recognizes it as a piece of hardware and that it’s probably your final cut.
my problem involved, my fc telling me the device was missing, but in log and capture i could control the tape, got timecode, but no video.
turns out i had to uninstall my quicktime 7, and reinstall it and then i got video and the device was recognized.
now, i forget where i found this post (that told me this was the answer) but you don’t want to delete all your quicktime 7 files, there are certain ones you want, i believe there was just one that mattered. i apologize for basically not being able to give you the step by step, but sounds like this might do the trick.
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sound good, but why would you need to actually delete the quicktime file? I have not imported any files with the 7 version yet, they are all from previous versions i guess. What i mean is that is just upgraded my final cut to 5.1 and since then did not capture anything.. because it is not working..
what do you think? Which one of your file was responsible, can you tell?
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If you got I-movie have a try. if you get your camara in, there is nothing with your camara or cable.
In FC try to open a new Capturepreset with your Cannon switched on.
Salud,
Rafael -
Thanks,
Imovie gets it, which means the cable and the camera are set-up properly. Now I went into capture presets with the camera on and it is on dv-pal 48hz, it sais “warning: video device dv video is missing” and yet beneath It notes the Canon… what can i do? what am i doing wrong?
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this was the website i used:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
hopefully this should work (?).
danny
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thanks that seems to be spot on! I will have a go after a few hours sleep…and will post the results 🙂
Jasmine
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Ironically, I am now having the same problem (with Canon cam). Thanks to you who are posting a solution. Why the need for the reinstall?
Coach
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reinstalling Quicktime has solved the problem, I dont know why… may be something got mixed up with the older version when i upgraded it..who knows… but yeah getting rid of all the quicktime76565 something receipts, and only the ones followed by a serial number, and reinstalling it has worked.
cheers to the help guys thanks 🙂
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