hdv again

[Boyd Mccollum]

Francesco,

I don’t have FCP 6 in front of me, but for HDV, use the Easy Setup for whichever flavor of HDV you have. Then when you are in the log & capture window, click on the middle tab at the top. There should be a check box at the bottom for the dv start/stop detection. I thought the Easy Setup actually defaulted to it. Not sure. Again, I don’t have the app in front of me, but look at those tabs, it’s in there.

Hope this helps.

[Francesco Biagini]

Hi Boyd
Thanx for your reply in fact I found the option in the C&L window, But is only capturing few frames

I am trying to capture on an external firewire 800 lacie drive with a MacBook pro 2.4 GHz 4 GB ram FCS2 from a SONY V1 camera that shot HDV 1080i at 25 fps

I tried all the device capture preset for hdv but it always start capturing than at the bottom of the window appear a warning ‘searching for media” and it creates a clip of sometime 24 frames sometime 1 sec and 11 frames but that s it

do you have any clue where I got it wrong
Thanx for the help

[Boyd Mccollum]

Not sure what is causing that. You might want to check in User preference to see what actions are selected on capture for both drop frame and timecode break. This kind of sounds like a timecode break.

Try moving forward on the tape – sometimes the beginning and end of tapes have more dropouts. See if the problem happens elsewhere. Also see if it only happens with this tape or any other.

[Francesco Biagini]

Funny enough the only work around was to log and batch capture and everything worked out fine, strange since HDV should have issue with timecode.
Btw today I got a deck and could capture now with start/stop detect for all the remaining tapes
Thanx for the help anyway
all the best