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FCP 6 VTR Issue
Hello All,
Here’s the deal. I’ve talked my boss into buying a new Mac Pro and installing FCP Studio 6 to see how it compares to our three other Avid MC editing suites. Well, I’m running into an issue that’s making me look like a fool. I’m trying to hook up a Panasonic AJ-HD1400 VTR to the Mac to capture into FInal Cut Pro using just firewire.
The deck is capable of doing this with Avid no problem at all. However with FCP when I’m trying to capture I am only able to get both deck control and video when I’m trying to capture DVCPRO HD footage. When I try and capture SD video (DVCPRO 50) I am only get deck control and no video or audio. FCP says, “Preview Disabled.”
I changed my capture settings in FCP and the deck shows that its playing DVCPRO 50 footage. I’m at a loss here. I’ve tried everything I can, and I don’t want my boss to think we should stick with using Avid as we begin to upgrade our shop. Need some help badly here comrades.
Thank You All,
GC“Auto save is life.”
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4 Replies
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Isn’t there a setting on the Panasonic Deck that controls what’s going down the firewire? I believe that you need to go into the deck menu and change that setting… otherwise your changing FCP won’t do any good. FCP will still be looking at an HD signal, and therefore that’s why you have a settings mismatch.
mark
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[Mark Raudonis] “Isn’t there a setting on the Panasonic Deck that controls what’s going down the firewire?”
Definitely. You need to set the deck to send dv50 down the firewire, then you need to use the DVCPro 50 easy setup from within FCP.
Jeremy
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Fellow Editing Brother,
I will check the manual again. Do you guys happen to know why Avid MC 3.0 will recognize both the SD and HD signal through the Firewire, but FCP won’t? As a FCP and Apple advocate, I’m hoping that Avid doesn’t have a leg up on FCP when it comes to recognizing VTR output formats.
Thanks,
GC“Auto save is life.”
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[Gabe Cotto] “Do you guys happen to know why Avid MC 3.0 will recognize both the SD and HD signal through the Firewire, but FCP won’t?”
Fcp will recognize whatever you send it, but you have to be setup in the proper easy setup and the deck has to be setup properly. FCP had a native DVCpro HD firewire workflow that allowed hd editing on g4 laptops way back in FCP v4.5. It is entirely possible and I think it was happening before Avid had the workflow down.
Jeremy
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