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HDV Captue HELP ASAP!!!
Hey, so I shot this awesome music video in HD, and I was trying to capture the footage onto my computer. For some odd and annoying reason, the capture was breaking the footage up into one second clips without my permission. Here’s the info: I used a Sony FX-7 HDV camera as my deck, and Final Cut Pro 5 as my software. I used the Easy Setup HDV format 1080i/60 to start with, because that’s how I shot it. The camera is pretty old, to the point that it refers to firewire as iLINK.
Problems along the way:
1: When I opened up FCP, it couldn’t find the external video device. However, it captured the footage, but it’s just all cut up like I said before.2: When I captured the footage, I didn’t see playback on my computer screen. It was blank.
3: After capturing, I can put all of the small clips together in a timeline, and it looks consistent, but as you know it’ll be a pain to edit.
I used the capture now, clip, and batch capture and all times, it gave me the same result. Does anyone know what’s happening? Please HELP!
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Katherine,
Not knowing that camera, I can only make some uneducated guesses. In the VCR moce, open the camera menu and see if it has a way to change the playback standard. You want HDV, not DV or Auto. While in the menu, make sure downconvert is not on. Plug the camera into a Firewire port, turn it on, THEN launch FCP, and make sure there is not another FW deck connected.
Go into FCPs Audio Video settings and select HDV Firewire for control and HDV 1080i (native) for the capture preset. Then launch the log and capture window, and go to the tab where it says make new clip on Timecode break and uncheck that. Again, not knowing that camera, dunno, but it may work. Try a capture now for a test.
Another method is to capture to ProRes via Firewire, but it takes a bit of horsepower. I wrote a tutorial on it in here.
Good luck!
Have a wonderful day.
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