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Help capturing footage from a JVC BR-HD50U??
I’ve got about 50 tapes to capture in to a project from a JVC BR-HD50U??
I’m going in through a FireWire 400 cable (1394)The problem is some tapes are not being read by the capture tool at all.
Some of the tapes are HD720 30fps
Some are mini DV NTSC.I switch the 1394 toggle on the front of the deck to HD or DV according to what format I’m digitizing (I power down the deck before I change the switch).
I use the “Easy setup” and select “HD” and “HD Firewire Basic”
or
“NTSC” and “NTSC Firewire basic”
I also close and re-open the capture window when I switch formats.Most tapes are capturing fine however there are about 6 tapes that the capture tool will not read.
When I play the problem tapes the “HDV” light goes on in the front of the deck (so that should mean they are HD right??).
The capture tool is reading TimeCode but won’t see a video or audio signal. . . . . What gives??
I can see audio levels on the deck.
Footage was also captured form these specific problem tapes on another project so I know it’s possible.
I’ve tried switching the “Easy Set Up” to HD1080 but then the capture tool says there is no device hooked up.Any ideas???
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4 Replies
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The BR-HD50 can be configured to show information and the tape format via composite output to a monitor – I’m guessing you’ve got a few HD-SD60 tapes in the batch. There’s several ways to capture these – one I know works (for PAL anyway) is a sequence preset of HDV-720p60, capture preset of HDV, device control preset of HDV Firewire 60fps, set HD FW out on the BR-HD50 and then log/capture. I’ve changed the settings here to match your NTSC footage.
OR: Download the Apple FW SDK and use DVHSCap to capture the tape to a M2t file, then convert using Mpegstreamclip to whatever you want.
Just been playing with all this as I had some HD-SD60 tapes come in to be edited.
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If you are seeing timecode, the HDV light is on, but no video is coming
through, you have either Canon or Sony HDV 1080 tapes in the mix.You will need a canon or sony playback deck for those.
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Thanks for everyones input.
I’m having two other problems now.
1) No audio preview on Capture of Standard Def tapes
When I capture the NTSC tapes I see the video in the preview window, but cant hear audio. When I capture I can see the video being captured but still can’t hear anything.
But Audio is there and sounds fine on the captured clip.I’ve got the AJA IO box turned off. I’ve tried switching Audio out put to “Built in Line out” – That’s what I usuually use when AJA is turned off. I’ve also tried “FireWire DV” for the Audio output setting.
I’d like to be able to hear the audio s I capture so I can make notes as it records.
2) No deck control. . . . . any suggestions??
I set Device Control to “FireWire NTSC Basic” and I switched the deck to “Remote”.
I powered down the deck and closed the capture window when I set these.Deck control is not as important to me but It would help
Thanks
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You won’t get an audio preview when doing a firewire capture.
for deck control you gotta be sure if you easy setup is HDV, the deck is set for HDV
and the tape is HDV.same for DV.
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