[Erin L. fitzgerald]

I’m sorry I didn’t respond sooner to all of your excellent answers, but want to say thanks a million. Andrew, your play the tape first idea worked like a charm. Thanks so much for the help, it saved me hours of headache, something I can’t afford to have on my busy schedule. And to everyone, thanks for the tips, I learned from them, you all rock!

Erin

[Erin L. fitzgerald]

I read once that when logging HDV from a deck you should disconnect all other firewire items…I have a couple of external hard drives plugged into the same computer. Is this at all a possibility, or just an old wives (read: IT guy’s) tale? but if this were true, why would I still be able to capture SD with the same setup? Musing.

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[Erin L. fitzgerald]

Thank you for answering. I wish it was that easy. I went to easy setup as you suggested. Response I got after setting up as you indicated: “unable to locate the following external devices: HDV (1440X1080) 60i”

Again, have been regularly logging SD with this deck and when I put in the HDV tape, it recognizes tape as HDV.

Wasn’t sure what you meant by make sure your camera settings aren’t converting HDV to SD. I’m not logging with the camera. I’m logging with a sony SD/HDV deck. Do you mean that it might have been shot and downconverted because of settings in the camera when shooting? Then wouldn’t the deck recognize it as SD instead of HDV?

Thanks much!