Need HELP importing HDV

[Jon Barrie]

When you say import do you mean copy over a data file or do you mean capture?
PPro can capture HDV from tape. It can also import the mpg files from data based HDV.
If you are capturing from a tape, make sure all the capture settings are set for HDV and not DV. Then make sure the camera is set to HDV out, some HDV cameras can internally down convert to DV which the computer will see the camera/deck as a DV deck and the HDV settings won’t work.
– JB

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[Danny Winn]

When you say you can’t get it into premiere Pro do you mean it won’t capture at all? Or, you can capture but it won’t go into PPro?

One thing that screwd me up when I first started capturing HD in PPro was that when I set up a new project, I selected the proper HD settings I wanted on the 2nd “New Project Window”, but when naming the file in the 1st window I didn’t click the HDV dropdown option and it remained on SD.

So make sure when you have the capture window open that you go to the top right where there’s 2 tabs, one says logging and one says settings. Click settings and make sure it reads “Capture settings HDV”. if it says SD then click HDV.

If that’s not the problem maybe you can explain exactly what is says when you try to capture (if anything).

Let us know…

[Michael Huling]

Thank you for your feedback!

I’m trying to take HDV footage off of a tape. If I can do that in PPro, that’s great; I just don’t know how exactly. I know I have the camera set properly to output in HDV, my issue was in dubbing from the tape to my hardrive, vista would import it as a .dvr-ms file which is not compatible with PPro.

If you say there is a way to get it off the tape directly in PPro, then I will ‘poke around’ in PPro more and try to figure it out. If I don’t figure it out, do you know what option in PPro I have to select? I’ve had it for a few months now, am pretty well accustomed to it, but still find myself overlooking imortant functions; such as this.

Thanks again!
Mike

[Michael Huling]

Thank you for responding!

I think the main issue is that I didn’t know I could capture the footage off a tape in PPro. I’m going to try and figure out how exactly and I very much appreciate you taking the time to help. I will be sure to check the settings so I don’t have that same issue you had!

Thanks again:)
Mike

[Matthew Bigwood]

When i try to capture nothing is coming in.
The device control is working i can play/pause/stop/FWD/RWD but when i click “record/capture” the camera plays but none of the frames are being captured.

I also tried to use HDVsplit but it give me an error when i try to capture “INFO: No more data is received from camcorder. Capture stopped.”

Any help would be appreciated.

I’m using Premiere Pro CS4 and Sony HDR-FX1

[Jim Richards]

Hi all:
Same problem here. Same camera – Sony hdr-fx1 .
Can control camera from PP, set in and outs, but no capture.
Click capture in/out – no effect.
Adds clip to resource bin. I drag it to the timeline and I get a red screen saying Offline.
What’s the magic handshake to start the capture?
Thanks!