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Capturing from Panasonic NVGS 75 Camcorder
Hello folks
I always use a DV deck to digitize my professional material, but my parents have a Panasonic NVGS75, and I thought Id show them how to edit using FCP. Well, to my demise, even with a brand new firewire cable and a month old camcorder in perfect shape, I couldnt get FCP to capture more than 1 or 2 frames a second, and the backup capture tool, GCam, captured everything but for some reason, with some kind of fluidity issue (the motion feels a little weird). Im sure its not the tape, which worked fine in a deck. The camcorder, as I said, is new. And my parents being non-pros, they shouldnt have to buy a DV deck to edit! I dont know, its the first time that Im using a camcorder to capture, did I do something wrong? -
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You were not too clear about which Mac you were using, yours or theirs.
If its theirs, does it have a second internal HD to capture to?
FW drive?I have had no problems at all using absolutely ANY home video camcorder for capture, monitor or dub out.
I have used many Panasonics, Sonys, even the super-cheap Sharp.
Perhaps a better “back-up capture tool” (and easier-to-use EDITOR) would be iMovie.
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Thanks for your answer. Youre right, I totally forgot that I never capture to the internal hard drive at work. And its what Ive done now. But I seem to remember ocasionnally capturing to the internal hard drive on other projects and having no problem… And Im using the latest ibook with 521 M RAM dont think you need much more than that… What do you think is wrong? Thanks a lot for your answer
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I’d trash the FCP Preferences and try again.
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