down-converting HDV to DV

[Walter Biscardi]

[Nikki J] “can someone tell me how to down-convert to DV from HDV. I have a Sony Z1 and FCP 4.5. I think I’ve changed all the settings on the camera, but when I try to capture it FCP says it can’t because there is no video…any suggestions?”

If the camera cannot do the downconvert internally to firewire, then you will need a capture card. The AJA Kona series does downconversion on the fly on the way in. You can capture your HDV to DV that way.

Or if it can downconvert via regular video output, then you could get something like the Canopus ADVC-100 (or 200 now?) to convert that video to DV.

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[Michael Gissing]

The Z1 needs to be set to output DV via the firewire port. When this is set properly, the light at the firewire port shows DV not HDV. Connect the firewire to the Mac and select DV PAL or NTSC in the FCP easy setup. You should be able to capture straight in that way. No need for any external cards.

Version 4.5 sees the Sony camera as long as it is properly set to donwconvert to DV. Version 5 FCP is needed to capture as HDV

[Nikki J]

Hi, thanks very much for that advice. I got it to work by fixing these settings.
cheers
Nikki

[Anish Patel]

If you caputer under HDV setting and then Batch Export your footage with the DV setting, do you get the same result?