[Fernandez_is_go]

Hey guys,

Sorry I dropped out a bit, this capturing started to work and my internet stopped working. BOTH seem to be workign now! It seems I had 2 cross over problems effecting my set up.

I went back to try capturing on different machines but had no luck, so then I tried capturing straight to the hard drive of my laptop, with the camera as the only device. At first it didn’t work but then I tried the old “Quickdraw” method, quickly switching the camera from CAM mode to VTR and it worked. So now I am capturing each tape then pulling out the cam and putting in the hard drives, copying media over to media druves, reconnecting media and clearing internal HD. Laborious but at keast I’m up and running.

So it seems that in my case the camera/FCP comes unstuck when there are multiple devices hooked up through the firewire. I was using a firewire bus most of the time, but I had also tried plugging the cam direct into a G5dual 2ghz… maybe I didnt try the fast on/off method as well??? Cannot remember.

Obviously there is a problem there as I still need to regularly hit the on/off technique even now to continue capturing, otherwise the capture will drop out as before. Also, the camera makes some kind of clunk when the mode is switched over? I guess this always happens but am I likely to cause some damage switching back and forth so often? What is this noise? Are you guys thinking this is hardware or software? I have tried all other devices and cables separately and they seem to work fine, even chained up togehter at the same time to run. I am now even running a new 640GB external drive in addition to the my main old drive.

So can I tell Sony there is a problem with the camera if I need to do the on/off thing? Or is it FCP not seeing the cam? Someone mentioned a potential issue with the power coming in (or was it out) of the device to drive the firewire? Is that possible? What can I do to get this situation fixed so I can capture direct to my media drives?

Happy to be capturing now – but not happy it’s a workaround!

Let me know. Thanks again, Nick

FCP 5.1.4
G4 Laptop 1.5 gHz
1.25 GB RAM
Sony V1 HDV Camer

[Fernandez_is_go]

Hi all,

I tried a capture using the Apple Intermediate Codec… was a very strange process. A message in the corner of the capture preview pane came up saying the preview was XX% behind the capture, then the tape ran out and the preview pane continued “processing” the media. Then the whole system crashed. Is this normal (not the crash obviously), can someone explain the codec to me?

Thanks, Nick

FCP 5.1.4
G4 Laptop 1.5 gHz
1.25 GB RAM
Sony V1 HDV Camer

[Fernandez_is_go]

Hi there,

Yep thanks for that one. Been onto the downconvert and all cam/system prefs that I can think of… but happy to keep checking them too if you can think of any others.

Nick

FCP 5.1.4
G4 Laptop 1.5 gHz
1.25 GB RAM
Sony V1 HDV Camer

[Fernandez_is_go]

Hi Jerry,

I am having some serious problems with capturing using the Sony V1. Been trying different machines with FCP 5.0.4 & 5.1.4, different device control and different cables. The message underneath the capture preview window drops out saying “searching for media” every 10-20 seconds and if I capture now and stop capture, none of the clip has been captured. I have seen some talk of the V1 having such problems but can find no solid advice or knowledge.

If you have any ideas or leads on who to ask I’ll be greatly appreciative. This is really making some headaches on my timelines!

Thanks, Nick

[Fernandez_is_go]

Hi again,

I have been shooting on 50i and have plenty of spce. the settings for minimum spce on capture have been checked. All the obvious one like user settings have been checked and I am sure it is not about preferences etc. I have tried capturing on two differnet mchines and using different tapes as well and all yield the same results. Its not that FCP refuses to capture or reports any breaks, it just switches off “capturing now” mode to giving message of “searching for media”. SO basically its not one “Glitch” in a tape it is continuous failure to capture on all tapes.

Thanks for the ideas to check again… Any other ideas???

Regards, Nick

[Fernandez_is_go]

Hi again,

I have been shooting on 50i and have plenty of spce. the settings for minimum spce on capture have been checked. All the obvious one like user settings have been checked and I am sure it is not about preferences etc. I have tried capturing on two differnet mchines and using different tapes as well and all yield the same results. Its not that FCP refuses to capture or reports any breaks, it just switches off nad on “capturing now” mode to giving message of “searching for media”. SO bsically its not one “Glitch” in a tape it is continuous failure to capture on all tapes.

Thanks for the ideas to check again… Any other ideas are appreciated???

Regards, Nick