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  • capturing issue with a Canon HDV HV30

    Posted by Christine Lakes on September 10, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Hey anyone who can help…
    I’ve been successfully capturing footage from my Canon HV30 (NTSC at 24fps) for the past month or so and now somehow, without having changed any settings in FCP, it won’t work anymore. I get different error messages every time I try depending on which settings I choose.
    Such as: ‘Unable to initialize capture device’ or ‘To capture HDV source material, both the Capture and Device Control presets must be configured for HDV; otherwise, to capture in another format, both must not be configured for HDV.’
    SOMEONE HELP PLEASE!
    🙂

    Julia Aldana replied 13 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Kevin Monahan

    September 10, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Try Final Cut Pro > Easy Setup

    HD
    29.97
    HDV 1080i

    Kevin Monahan
    http://www.fcpworld.com
    Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

  • Chris Poisson

    September 10, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    Caroline,

    My guess is that your menu setting for playback standard is not set to HDV which it may have to be. At least this is true for it’s big brother, the A1. That’s what I’d check first.

    Have a wonderful day.

  • Consuelo Gonzalez

    September 19, 2008 at 4:09 am

    Kevin,

    I LOVE YOU. I was having the same problem and now it’s fixed.
    Thank you so much for your time.

    Consuelo at Mohair Media

  • Christine Lakes

    September 21, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Thanks so much for all your help guys. 🙂 I seem to have got it working now! Thanks 🙂

  • Julia Aldana

    June 5, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    HI, everybody!

    I try to capture footage from Canon HDV HV 30 to FCP 6.6. Footage was shot in HD 24p camera set up. Whatever settings I try – nothing works, including what recommended in previous messages and other forums (i spend all day researching). I got the same error message – “Device control is not connected or capture preset is not set up correctly”.
    Camera is connected – Mac recognized it, also when I do set up on DV NTSC – capture windows opens and it captures but – not in HD, 16:9, 24p

    Please, help me – whoever captured succesfully in this type of case – let me know what exact audio/video settings I should use
    Thank you very much
    Julia

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