-
HDV CAPTURING WITH SONY
Hello Everyone,
Well, I have read and read and read. I see that a few people have posted about a few problems with capturing in HDV.
Well, my issue, I have a Sony HVR-M15U and it took me about 20 minutes of tinkering with the Setting to get FCP to recognize it. I even called for help … No one new … Experience is just plain Golden when you figure it out yourself…
Now I am able to capture and control the deck. But the deck would capture about 10-15 clips then error out when I batch capture my logs.
Does anyone have any ideas?I am now capturing 5-10 clips at a time…but that just takes away from the Batch Capture feature. Help again … for future projects.
-Raymond-
Houston – editor -
4 Replies
-
Sorry…. FCP just doens’t do HDV very well at all. And to add to this, I’m starting to notice there is an issue with new Sony HDV decks and Batch Capture while capturing to HDV.
Most everyone else here doesn’t have these issues because we capture to another codec like DVCProHD. Now that FCS2 is coming out at the end of May, I’m sure that everyone will switch over the the new Apple ProRes 422 codec. You can still use the firewire for machine control but use the component outputs to output your video thru a capture card like the AJA Kona series.
Hopefully after FCS2 gets out on the market, this will all change. We’ll have to see.
_______________________________
Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com -
That idea sounds good. But I was under the impression that you would lose some info going through an AJA box via Component. I have an AJA Kona LHE Capture Card and setup with a Quad 2.5 G5 PowerMac.
To get true HD, the Sony M15U deck needs to output through FireWire. It states this in the manual and Sony even told me that. Correct me if my facts are wrong. Thanks. Still getting errors during capture after every 15 clips.
… on the Positive side, The video looks amazing when it finally comes through.-Raymond-
Houston Editor -
RayRayT- “To get true HD, the Sony M15U deck needs to output through FireWire.”
Wrong.
To get true HDV NATIVE you need to use firewire. To get true HD you go in 1080i component uncompressed or as Ray suggested DVCProHD. To do uncompressed you need a super drive setup with lots of space.
Now for machine control use Sony HDV and if that doesn’t work try this; when you are in FCP log and capture window select the machine control tab and select DVCProHD machine control (FCP won’t let you select it in audio/video settings). That is the most stable machine control that we have found but with HDV’s long gop time code is a little dicey and you have to have tons of pre-roll and post-roll. Where we don’t have slop we capture those clips on the fly.
Hope this helps.
JerryG5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP5 Studio
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1 -
I appreciate that. I will try that route out. The office that I work at has all of these things. I do have a Raid with 2 TB of space so…that shouldn’t bother me. Thanks for your input.
-Raymond-
Houston Editor
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up