[Efrain Melendez]

I am not sure if anyone has ran into this but I thought I’d share my experience when I could not capture from the FS 100.

I was recording from the HVX 200 using 480i24PA DVCPRO – Drop frame – and jam syncing for a muti-clip edit in post for final cut pro.

The FS 100 received the external timecode, and it recorded the entire 2.5 hour show. When I went into FCP, I could not “Log and Transfer” the footage because the computer could not recognize the data as P2.

I COULD watch the footage from the camera, but not from the mac.

The settings on the FS 100 was set to: Record > Normal | HDD Mode > DVC Pro/DV | DV Formats > Quicktime.

The problem was that the FS 100 was set to Quicktime (hoping the I could just drag and drop the footage for Final Cut). This had worked previously for me, but for some reason the mac would not recognize the footage this time.

I spoke to the Focus Enhancement folks and their Tech told me I would have to transfer the footage from the FS 100 to mini DV and down convert (although I was technically shooting SD – not cool had I been shooting HD).

Before going through with this, I decided to hook up the FS 100 to the mac, but instead of going from the “Computer i/o” I hooked up from the “DV i/o” out.

I successfully captured using LOG AND CAPTURE, by doing a real time capture tricking the computer into thinking the FS 100 as a deck.

Although I do not recommend this to anyone, it worked for me and saved some footage that I thought would be lost forever.

Cheers.