HDV Capture Trouble in CS5 Windows 7

[Saad Khan]

hi I’ve read the entire thread and am having exactly the same issue. My camera works fine with SD but when I set it to HDV, I can contro, the camera, but that’s it. I can’t press record to capture the HDV footage and it says my capture device is offline.

Below are details about my system.

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name SAADKHAN-PC
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model P5Q DELUXE
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz, 2670 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1306, 20/08/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale Australia
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “6.1.7600.16385”
User Name SaadKhan-PC\Saad Khan
Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 8.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 5.05 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 11.8 GB
Page File Space 8.00 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Saad Khan
saadkhan1976@gmail.com

[Jon Barrie]

are you sure you have set the capture setting to HDV and not DV…

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[Saad Khan]

Hey Jon, and everyone else who may be having the same problem. I’m capturing using my Canon XHA1. I changed all the settings as stated in the forums. However, when I went to change the down conversion setting, it was not highlighted so I thought it was automatically turned off when I changed my player settings from DV to HDV on my camera. After I disconnected the camera from the computer and looked at the settings again, I saw that the Down conversion setting was on and I now had the option to turn it off. Once I did that, Premiere now sees my camera, and I was able to capture the footage!!!

Thanks for all your help.

Saad Khan
saadkhan1976@gmail.com

[Eric Jurgenson]

If you shot 24P (and maybe 30P) on the camera, the Sony deck is not going to play that footage back. You will have to use the original camera to capture from, or find a deck with Canon 24P playback capabilities.

[Jeremi Skelton]

Just thought I’d give a bit of an update…Seems like in a round about way I was able to capture the HDV footage from my XHA1 into Priemiere CS5.

I fired up my system, connected cam with firewire and powered up in VCR/Play.

The computer recognized the cam, and indicated that the device was running properly…however I didn’t get an Autoplay window pop up allowing me to go capture in Premiere.

I opened Premiere manually…went to “Capture”…and like many times before the Capture window said “Device Off-Line”….conisiten with the trouble I’ve been having since the start…however, this time as a last ditch effort I pressed play on the camera itself, and low and behold the video was displayed in the capture window.

I still didn’t have device control…but I was able to press the record button in the capture window, and my footage started to download…with no video display in the capture window (but that’s normal I guess). I used the LCD on the camera to figure out where to start and stop my recordings.

I still believe something is not right…but the main thing is that I was able to get my footage in and start working!

My trouble now is I’d like to export my edited project back to the tape…I’ve been through the on-line CS5 manual and the camera manual and I can’t get anything to work…I’ve Prepared the sequence to export to tape…but when I go to “File” “Export”…the “Export to Tape” is grayed out. I feel like I’ve tried everything possible and just can’t get the “Export to Tape” option to activate…or get my camera to display the sequence on the LCD when in record/pause mode.

…needing some assistance once again! 😉

[Laura Alcojor]

Hello! I have the same problem … please tell me as they did to capture!

[Jacquie Godsman]

Hi Jeremy,
I’m having the same problem, I wanted to email you to find out if you’ve had any luck since this thread, but can’t locate your contact details (or maybe moo doesn’t allow it – I’m a newbie).
Anyway, if you or anyone read this – please help – I would love to be able to set my in and out capture points but it’s impossible. Like Jeremy I’m having to press play then watch my camera to see when I want to stop it! 🙁

[Jimmy Dominico]

Hi man, I see your post is dated 2011, but just in case you still have the problem with capturing with your Canon XHA1 to your PC, this is what work for me:
Download and install Adobe premiere 7 (trial) and try it (it should work fine), once you had successfully capture your video then close Adobe Premiere and open Vegas, it should work this time.

Alexander

P.D. Sorry about my English, I’m from Venezuela and I just wanted to share this after spending more than a year trying to get a solution for this!