Capturing HDV to Apple Prores422 problems

[Curious Turtle]

When you say Final Cut V6 do you mean V6.05? Grab the updates from Apple’s site.

Your Audio/Video capture settings sound as if it should work fine:
Capture Preset: HDV-Apple ProRes 422

Have you tried to use another device control preset? HDV Firewire Basic for example.

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[Hannah Gibson]

yeah i have tried all the other capture presets too. I can’t figure it out, it won’t log and capture under any of them. not sure what’s going on. the only way it will work if if i set them all the HDV1080i50 only.

Thinking of just upgrading to final cut 7 maybe.

i just wanted to keep it at this version because it’s what all the computers at uni are running.

thanks

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Hanna,
i can not give you any tip because I don’t work with HDV, but probably the answer is in this tutorial of our COW leader Chris Poisson:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php

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rafael

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[Arnie Schlissel]

You have to use firewire HDV deck control to use the HDV to ProRes preset.

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[Stewart Charles]

when I tryed it I was told it is not possible to log and capture proress over fire wire.

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[Arnie Schlissel]

[stewart charles] “when I tryed it I was told it is not possible to log and capture proress over fire wire.”

That’s correct. Drives me nuts.

If you want to be able to properly log your HDV tapes, you need to use a deck with RS-422 serial control and SDI or HDMI output and connect it to a capture card with SDI or HDMI input.

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[Ron Craig]

If you want to be able to properly log your HDV tapes, you need to use a deck with RS-422 serial control and SDI or HDMI output and connect it to a capture card with SDI or HDMI input.

Well, that’s not the only way to “properly” do it. My way is similar but not exactly the same. I use a small Sony clamshell HDV deck with component out. I convert the component signal to SDI with an AJA mini-converter and import that signal to FCP through an AJA Kona 3 card. Machine control is via firewire, not RS-422. Log and capture with timecode.

[David Roth weiss]

[stewart charles] “when I tryed it I was told it is not possible to log and capture proress over fire wire. “

You don’t use log and capture…

You must read the tutorial Rafael mentioned above at https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php to see how it’s done.

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[Michael Gissing]

[David Roth Weiss] “[stewart charles] “when I tryed it I was told it is not possible to log and capture proress over fire wire. ”

You don’t use log and capture…”

Confusing. Chris’s article says to open the log & capture window, but you have to read down the comments to find the clue that it isn’t a batch capture process but a capture now.

Perhaps that is the problem for those that have struggled with this setup. Go to the bottom of the comments and work up.