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Deck control for HDR-HC7 Camera doesn’t work in FCPHD!!
Hello,
I’m trying to capture some media from an HDV tape using a Sony HDR-HC7. I’ve connected the firewire as I normally do with our other camera, a Sony HDR-Z1U.. But the deck control doesn’t work with the HDR-HC7.
I can control and capture from the camera using iMovie but not FCPHD. I’ve tried on both an oder G4 and on a G5 Quad 2.5 GHz with plenty of RAM. I’m using the latest version of FCPHD 6.0.2.
I tried switching modes in the camera, from VTR to Camera to Memory but nothing works.. I’ve also tried many different firewire setups to no avail.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
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I should add that I’ trying to capture in DV mode, not using the HDV capture template/tool in FCPHD.
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I have no problems controlling my HC7 with FCP 6.0.2.
First of all, I prefer to capture in the HDV format. If you let the camera covert to DV, it squeezes and distorts your image to make it fit in a DV screen.
To capture in the HDV mode, use the touch screen on your camera and go to the Standard Set. Find the iLink Conv and set it to OFF. In FCP, go to Easy Set Up and choose HDV1080i60. Set your camera to the PLAY/EDIT mode and you should be able to control it with FCP. You can edit in HDV, then convert to SD in FCP. This will give you a undistorted widescreen image with black lines at the top and bottom.
If you still want to let your camera do the converting, Go to the Standard Set. Set iLink Conv to HDV-DV. Then in FCP, go to Easy Set Up and choose DV-NTSC.
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I just tried converting an HDV sequence in FCP to a DV sequence, and it looks jumpy, so maybe you are better off capturing the squished DV image that the camera creates.
I have been doing my editing in HDV. Then I take my edited sequences back out to HDV tape and the image quality is great on all TVs, standard and HD. For the SD video, I have been going to Compressor then to DVD Studio Pro. Image quality with this method is good on a standard TV, but simply ok on a large LCD HDTV.
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Ok, here is my last post on this subject. I played around with FCP and discovered that when converting HDV to DV in FCP, if you get a jumpy image, you can apply a Shift Fields filter and that corrects the problem.
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Hi Sally.
Thanks for the tips.. I have no problem capturing now, thanks to your advice.
Just so you know.. If you capture in DV and find that the image is distorted. There is a place in the clip settings in FCPHD where you can tell the software whether the clip is anamorphic (widescreen) or normal(4:3). If you put a tick mark in this column, FCP will stretch your clip to the correct proportions.
You can also set up a capture template that automatically sets all of the clips you capture to widescreen/anamorphic. I find it much easier to edit in DV than in HDV, which is an MPEG format. Then I do the online later on. Then again, I’m also working with HDCAM footage which is very heavy to edit.
Thanks again!
Kai
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Dear friends:
I’m having problems capturing video straight from the Sony HDR-HC7 camera into FCP.
Reading the post below from Sally Bartel I could solved the problems on capturing from tape, but only using the DV-NTSC set up as she wrote in the end of the post.” Re: Deck control for HDR-HC7 Camera doesn’t work in FCPHD!!
by Sally Bartel on Jan 18, 2008 at 7:27:05 pmI have no problems controlling my HC7 with FCP 6.0.2.
First of all, I prefer to capture in the HDV format. If you let the camera covert to DV, it squeezes and distorts your image to make it fit in a DV screen.
To capture in the HDV mode, use the touch screen on your camera and go to the Standard Set. Find the iLink Conv and set it to OFF. In FCP, go to Easy Set Up and choose HDV1080i60. Set your camera to the PLAY/EDIT mode and you should be able to control it with FCP. You can edit in HDV, then convert to SD in FCP. This will give you a undistorted widescreen image with black lines at the top and bottom.
If you still want to let your camera do the converting, Go to the Standard Set. Set iLink Conv to HDV-DV. Then in FCP, go to Easy Set Up and choose DV-NTSC. ”
But the “big” problem is that I want to capture into FCP and not use tapes.
I’m working with FCS2 only for 2 weeks and I came from FCP HD 4.5, jumping over the FCS1. Back there I used to capture from a VHS-C camera straight into FCP with no problems, using the DV-NTSC set up and a “bridge”, the CANOPUS ADVC 300 digitalizing the footages .
How should I proceed to do the same using this Sony HDR-HC7 and FCS2 ? In both modes, HD and DV-NTSC I only get a black window on “LOG AND CAPTURE” …..PS.: I’m using a MacBook Pro
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
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