Using HDV with FCP5 – Sony HVR-1VU camera capture

[Bill Kelly]

Try using the Easy Setup for HDV 1080i. Sometime when you just set the capture settings it doesn’t like to see the camera. Not really sure why. I had that problem the first time I tried to capture from an FX-1. Once I used the Easy Setup, it saw the camera and captured with no problem. Good luck.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dream Big Give Big] “I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to properly set the capture settings in FCP5 so that I can capture HDV video from my brand spanking new Sony HVR-1VU 1080i/60p DVCam camcorder.”

Must be a run on that camera, there’s a thread down below and I believe someone said FCP does not support capture from that camera right now.

But if it does work, you need to just set FCP to an HDV Easy Setup and ensure that the camera is not downconverting the signal to Firewire.

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[David Smith]

[Dream Big Give Big] “I shot it on the DVCam, 1080i setting for HDV quaility stuff, but cannot figure out how to capture it in that. I can capture what I shot in NTSC DV, which is way lower quality. “

Which setting did you record with? DVCam, OR HDV 1080i? If you did shoot it as DVCam then that would explain why you can catpure it as DV, but not as 1080i.

David

[Dream Big give big]

[David Smith] “Which setting did you record with? DVCam, OR HDV 1080i? If you did shoot it as DVCam then that would explain why you can catpure it as DV, but not as 1080i.”

I shot it in DVCam using the HDV 1080i setting.
Please explain why you think it wouldn’t capture in 1080i if it was shot in DVCam?
That’s supposed to be the maximum quality setting (DVCam at 1080i).

You can set the camera to down convert to DV from whatever you shoot in, but to capture the higher quality DVCam stuff you have to have that funciton turned off.