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Capturing With Canon HV20
I just shot HDV with my Canon HV20. Using Final Cut 6.0.6 I can’t get Capture Now to fully recognize the camera. At first I had no communication at all. After poking around and changing settings I was able to control the camera from Final Cut but ‘Preview Disabled’ and it wouldn’t capture. I changed some more settings and now Final Cut doesn’t recognize the camera at all.
For starters, I’m not sure where all the relevant settings are located. I’ve been in Preferences, Easy set-up and the setups inside capture now. I’ve searched for this topic on here and haven’t found an answer that works.
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4 Replies
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Long time Final Cut Guru Andrew Balis has an article on Moviola’s website called “Capturing HDV Into ProRes Via FireWire”. In the article is a link to free Easy Setups for Canon (60i, 30p and 24p) and Sony (60i, 30p, A24p, 24p)
Found here:
https://www.moviola.com/edu/rc/hdv_proresBest!
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Trash your preferences. If you don’t know how, search this forum on the phrase “trash preferences”.
Then set the easy setup to be the “basic” version of the frame rate and size you’ve shot.
Jerry
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I’m assuming you have the hv20 connected by firewire and turned on before launching Final Cut. FCP is rather finicky with Canon cameras (I have an hv20 and an xha1).
Have you tried the Refresh A/V Devices?
Dave
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Thanks, guys! Trashing prefs did the trick.
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