Importing footage from Canon VIXIA HV40?

[Ryan Munevar]

Thanks man!

[John Ranta]

I just want to say “thank you” for the 10 hours you spent figuring this out, and your detailed explanation! It worked like a champ. JR

[Su Goldfish]

You are a life saver. Instead of 10 hours that only took 1hr because I was lucky enough to find your post…

[James Gritz]

followed you instruction once and they worked. now I can’t seem to get them to work again. i am trying to import footage that was shot in 24p with a Panasonic AG 100 pre HD and keep getting the message

Capture was aborted due to lack of incoming data from device. Check your connections and that the deck is playing.

I can control the camera from FCP so it must be seeing it. any ideas?

James

[Tom Wolsky]

Please give your full system specifications, what computer, what drives, what camera or deck, how everything’s connected, what settings are on the media, what settings you’re using in Final Cut, and finally what version of the software, of the OS, and of QuickTime you are using.

Your camera doesn’t shoot 24fps. It shoots 24 with pulldown added recorded at 29.97.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[James Gritz]

Mac OS X 2.66GHz Inter Core 2 DUO mac book pro
Canon Vixio HV40
final cut pro 7.03

Just bringing them directly into the hard drive on the computer but I have a Lacie 1TB attached as the scratch disk

I followed you instructions literally. Maybe the problem is the original footage not being shot in HD but in 24 p, but it worked once when I followed your instruction. Right now it seems to be capturing ok Premier Pro. I’m not really familiar with this program but maybe I can use it as a work around and save the files some way and bring them into FCP. I’m pretty new to FCP also.
Quick time version 10.0

Thanks for your quick response. let me know if you need more info.

[Tom Wolsky]

What are the exact specs of the media you shot? You have to use settings that match that.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Ankit Dogra]

I went through these steps and still not working for me. Can anyone guide me as to what I should do next? The footage I recorded was in HDV.

This is the error I keep getting:

Device is not connected or the capture preset is not setup correctly. You may still log offline clips.

This might also happen if you play DV footage in an HDV device.

Ankit

[Maxi Wille]

HI ToM !! maybe you can help me. using standard resolution no problem, but when i change to HD my mac book pro stops seeing it. Im using the Isadora software. any ideas? is it a codec problem or compression type mixed with something else?
thanks a lot
maxi

[Ben Emmans]

I don’t have a mac os, and final cut pro is for mac os.
Another problem… I simply can’t get the videos onto my computer no matter how hard I try. I bought a firewire 1394 ieee but I am not getting any results. I plug it into my computer but nothing shows on my computer. I have been having my camera for 1year and I haven’t had the chance to get videos off of it.