[David Foster]

I have written to Cinema Craft in Japan. I hope they will continue to sell and support the product. I’ve loved it for the year and a half I’ve used it. I’ve held off upgrading to Snow Leopard ‘cuz I was awaiting an e-mail from Cinema Craft telling me it works in SL. When i hear any reply I will post here.

David Foster

[David Foster]

Andy,

Thanks for the correct info. I don’t know why I thought the way I did.

Rob, after more thoroughly reading your original post, it appears you’ve followed your checklist properly so I admit to being stumped. At first I thought Compressor was messing up your field dominance a I’m having that exact problem with the CinemaCraft plugin in Compressor (started since I last updated CinemaCraft…need to reinstall or revert to a prior version).

However, since you mentioned that you are seeing this while monitoring, I’m a bit perplexed.

Perhaps copying/pasting into a new PAL sequence will fix it up

[David Foster]

Perhaps I’m wrong, but I thought that PAL dv was upper field first. I’m guessing your field order is screwed up.

Dave

[David Foster]

If the dv in in the upper left is flashing when the firewire is plugged in, then yes, I’m afraid the Canon’s firewire port is toast.

Dave

[David Foster]

Canon cameras are notorious for not playing nicely when another FireWire device is connected to the same port. I’d suggest getting an express34 FireWire adapter and connect the camera that way. Or you could capture via eSata or USB. That should fix it.

[David Foster]

I have a feeling your assumption is correct. After looking at your screenshot, I don’t believe you can mix 30f (or P) with 60i in a multiclip. there must be a way in capture settings to get the hv30 to correctly show 30p. I’ll experiment with my hv20 tomorrow.

Dave

[David Foster]

by chance do you have any other FireWire devices hooked up to your computer when you connect your camera? Canons are notorious for nor playing nicely in such scenario. I own four different Canons. Also, make sure the camera vtr output is set to hdv and not auto before you plug the camera in. Hope this helps.

Dave

[David Foster]

One thing I forgot to mention is make sure you have no other FireWire
devices connected to your computer when hooking up the Canon.

David Foster

[David Foster]

From what I’ve read from your post, it appears that you’re so close.
What I do differently is I set the vtr to hdv (not auto), downconversion to off,
then I turn off the camera. Plug in FireWire to computer, then to the camera. I find if the
FireWire is already plugged into the computer, sometimes FCP doesn’t see the camera.
So, plug FireWire into computer, then the camera. Now turn the camera on, then launch FCP.

That should do it. If not, check and see in the xha1’s LCD screen and see if the dv-in symbol is
flashing or not. If it is flashing, that more than likely means the camera’s FireWire port is damaged/shot
due to the camera being plugged into FireWire while turned on. Otherwise, if your hdv footage is shot in 60i,
any other hdv camera can play it, so you could use a Sony or whatever brand to get your footage logged.

Hope this helps.
Dave foster

[David Foster]

I’ll admit I am surprised no one knows the answer to this. Anyway, I talked with Canon customer service, and after some discussion we agreed that the camera’s firewire port is kaput (after three uses).

So, if anyone with an XH A1 tries to hook it up to a computer via firewire, and the CH1/2 display and “dv/hdv in” alternately flash in the camera display, it’s 98% likely the firewire port is fried.

dave