Capturing HDV from HV20 without a tape in fcp 6?

[Jerry Hofmann]

Here’s my best guess: I don’t think that this can be done with HDV cameras… reason is the stream that has to start with an i frame… only 1 in 15 frames would be that, so if you don’t hit that frame exactly, it’s not going to capture the video. Further, I’m not sure timecode is being sent out that FW port…

If you had a camera that puts out uncompressed HD like the Canon higher end cameras do, you could capture that stream live because it’s an all i frame format… Also, if you had a Kona LH series card or Io HD, you could also capture from your analog outputs from your current camera. It too would be sending an all i frame stream to your Mac.

Jerry

[Tom Wolsky]

“This doesn’t work for me.”

Why does this this not work for you? What happens when you do that? What settings are you using on the camera? What settings are you using in FCP?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Uli Plank]

I works fine for me. While ours is a European model, I can’t see a reason why it shouldn’t work for you.

Apart from that, you can get awesome quality by capturing live from the HDMI connector with Blackmagic’s Infinity card from that camera.

Regards,

Uli

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Jayson Rahmlow]

I’ve tried a couple different settings. Neither let me capture the hdv video stream.

Camera settings

HDV 24p connected via firewire.

FCP settings

1. capture preset – HDV
device control preset – non controllable device

result – I try to open the capture window and FCP says – to capture hdv both presets must be set to HDV. Otherwise to capture other format both presets must not be set to HDV.

2. capture preset – HDV apple intermediate codec
device control preset – non controllable device

result – I try to open the capture the window but FCP says “unable to detect tape”

What set up are you using that’s working for you?

Thanks,
jayson