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Problems Capturing HDV
I am trying to capture video from my Canon XH A1 via firewire. Normally this works fine. This time the capture window reports that the device is “offline”, but when I go to the control settings it reports that it is “online”. The play and stop buttons work, but I see no video preview in the monitor and the record button is not available. I have turned everything off and on, connected, disconnected and reconnected, tried another firewire cable. At one point the record button was available despite there being no video on the monitor. I tried to record, but when I stopped the recording no box showed up for me to tile the clip and there was no clip recorded in the bin. And, of course, I promised the project to the customer TOMORROW!
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. (Here’s hoping nobody else has a life and is out on a Saturday night)
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Be sure to check the capture capture settings are set to HDV. DV setting will still control the camera deck but won’t capture HDV.
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Jon Barrie
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Thanks for the suggestion. They are set on HDV. I even tried starting another project with the correct settings of 1080 30p to see if maybe I did something wrong the first time, but with the same result.
-Phil
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There are some troubleshooting suggestions here:
https://kb2.adobe.com/cps/828/cpsid_82848.html———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
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Hi Phil,
My understanding is that most (if not all) HDV camcorders that offer 24p or 30p modes actually record that signal in a 1080i wrapper (pulldown is added) so even if you shot in 1080p30 you may need to capture as 1080i60
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers
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