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    “Codec not found.” Error message when attempting to capture.

    Posted by Lucas Howe on April 3, 2007 at 4:05 am

    I have a PowerMac G5 running an older Final Cut Pro HD (4.5).
    Don’t want to upgrade as I rarely use it.

    Tonight I am attempting to digitize from a DVCPRO SD (not HD) AJ-SD93P.
    It is connected via Firewire.

    I have my device control set on FireWire NTSC (I also experimented switching to
    Basic).

    My capture/input is set to: DV NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic.
    (I also experiment switching to all of the SD options on the pulldown menu)

    I keep cutting out when I attempt to capture with this message:
    “Codec not found. You may be using a compression type without the corresponding hardware card.”

    I know any and all codecs should be there as I have captured from this format in the past.

    Any ideas? I am going nuts and it is getting late!!

    Please help!

    Thanks in advance.

    Lucas

    Rafael Amador replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies

  • Michael Gissing

    April 3, 2007 at 4:36 am

    Is the tape DVCPro 25 or DVCPro50? The DV preset you are using is for 25. If the tape is 50 then select the suitable codec.

  • Rafael Amador

    April 3, 2007 at 4:53 am

    Try setting DVCPro NTSC. No DV NTSC. No DVCPro50NTSC.
    Rafael

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