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HDV in final cut pro
I took on a project without being told that two tapes were shot in HDV. I have no experience with this project and having trouble digitizing. I have access to the camera that seems to play HDV/DV. I have been able to digitize all DV footage off this camera but with HDV footage I have camera control, but it does not “read an image” I guess. The log and capture screen is just black. Any suggestions.
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It is likely your playback settings need to be set to HDV. It should be in the menus.
Have a wonderful day.
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I presume that you are using a DV sequence. If so you need to use the HDV camera to downconvert the image to DV and then you can capture it via firewire.
As you didn’t give details of your FCP settings and the camera, you will need to read the instruction manual for the camera to set it to downconvert from HDV.
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The project is a DV timeline. That is the thing. Amateurs shot it and I have two tape on DV and two on HDV. So I have to actually downconvert to another tape in DV and then use firewire? Or this is a setting in easy set up or what?
thanks for the help.
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You do not have to downconvert anything. FCP will scale HDV footage in a DV (yuck!) timeline and force you to render. It also will add a shift fields filter.
If this were my project I would set it up as ProRes or 8 bit SD and put whatever you want in it. This way any graphics will be good quality.
Have a wonderful day.
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[Dustin DePree] “So I have to actually downconvert to another tape in DV and then use firewire?”
NO some HDV cameras will down-convert HDV to DV in the camera and then output DV via firewire. That is what some of the others were trying to day is that your settings are not matching what is coming out of your camera.
And like a previous post said, because you have not told use what camera you are using we cannot say if your camera can even down convert the video for you.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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It is a Canon HV10.
Any comments?
Thanks
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