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Final Cut Not recognising HDV cam, cant export to tape
Howdy to all you good mac people,
I am new to FCP but have been a Vegas and Premier editor for a while
I am stumped on why I cant export xdcam footage to tape?
I am currently using a mac mini and attempted to connect a sony FX1 with a firewire cable (4pin to 9 pin).
However, FCP doesnt seem to recognise the video camera? the camera does recognise that their is a cable connected and displays the ‘HDV/DV in’ text.
I have followed the youtube tuts on how to export to tape but it doesnt work, I have attempted to export the clip into avi, dv stream etc and attempt to export that to tape, nothing seems to work….please help.
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You can’t output XDCAM to HDV tape…XDCAM isn’t a tape based format. They are completely different formats. You need to render the XDCAM out as HDV, by putting it into an HDV sequence and rendering. THEN you can output to HDV tape.
Shane
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Hi Shane, thanks for the response, I certainly appreciate that the clips would need to be rendered out to HDV and was surprised when the youtube tut didnt mention this was needed, this is certainly the way vegas/premier do it.
however, i am still stuck, i have had success with the clips being printed to tape as ‘DV’ just not HDV.
I have tried to render out a test clip in HDV, then put it into a HDV sequence, then have my Sony FX1 set to HDV with a HDV tape. But the clip is not accepted?? the camera doesnt recognise the print to video attempt. i have fiddled with the settings and sometimes i get the camera recording a blue screen.
i know it’s strange to want to transcode xdcam footage to tape but that is what i have been asked to do, and i cant seem to find a solid step by step tut on the net.
any ideas?
or the another option which would be helpful is, does FCP have a format it renders/transcodes to which is PC-Vegas/Premier friendly? then i can do all the printing to tape in those programs.
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Outputting to HDV tape isn’t my thing. The HDV I worked with was output to HDCAM SR. I haven’t had the pleasure. I just know that to output to HDV via firewire, your footage needs to be HDV.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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[Jack Monkiewicz] “i have had success with the clips being printed to tape as ‘DV’ just not HDV.”
HDV is whats called a long GOP format. All the frames don’t really exist in full. Some are interpolated in a specific pattern that has to be created in a conform process. DV is not like that. All the frames exist in DV.
[Jack Monkiewicz] “I have tried to render out a test clip in HDV, then put it into a HDV sequence, then have my Sony FX1 set to HDV with a HDV tape. But the clip is not accepted?? the camera doesnt recognise the print to video attempt. i have fiddled with the settings and sometimes i get the camera recording a blue screen. “
Can’t really say what the problem is. Maybe turn everything off and try again. Maybe try Firewire basic for machine control.
Can you output a sequence of test footage shot with that camera?
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thanks for your response john, i am still battling away. its turns out that when i attempted to print to tape/video in dv the aspect ratio is warped/stretched, so i have reverted to converting each individual clip into ‘dv stream’ through FCP and importing it into Vegas, then printing to tape from there.
im not sure whether i could download HDV footage into FCP with my FX1 and 4 to 9 pin firewire? there have been too many issues with HDV and i will attempt to avoid it. thanks for the info on how HDV used and created, learn something new everyday.
looks like i will push through the pain on this project and hopefully have a better system next time…
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