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Gary Graham
October 15, 2013 at 6:24 pm in reply to: canon xl1s & final cut pro 7.0.3

the system profiler isn’t showing the camera via firewire. see image below

https://img36.imageshack.us/img36/7263/nq98.jpg
Gary Graham
October 15, 2013 at 6:14 pm in reply to: canon xl1s & final cut pro 7.0.3

apple list of supported cameras including canon xl1s

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4887
Gary Graham
October 15, 2013 at 6:12 pm in reply to: canon xl1s & final cut pro 7.0.3

i’m also connected to mains supply while playing vcr through firewire i had also seen that suggested to connect camera to mains instead of battery power.

just putting as much info as possible on as i can to eliminate what i’ve already tried.
Gary Graham
October 15, 2013 at 6:08 pm in reply to: canon xl1s & final cut pro 7.0.3

when im connected via firewire 800 playing in vcr mode i dont see the info you mentioned above ( I believe the XL1s displays a “DV IN” icon in the viewfinder when it’s communicating through the FW port.)

i’m stumped regarding is it a software problem or a faulty firewire cable 3 days old.
Gary Graham
October 15, 2013 at 6:04 pm in reply to: canon xl1s & final cut pro 7.0.3

downloaded that app and trashed preferences with the app.

final cut pro wont recognise the camera imovie wont & quicktime trying new recording only recognises built in isight to my imac.

i cant get any programme to recognise the camera canon xl1s which is in VCR mode playing the recording through the camera yet no programme/software can find the camera to import the media.

the Nikkai firewire 800 (IEEE1394b) cable which is 9pin male to 4 pin male was only purchased from maplin store a few days ago by myself.

is it possible the cable is faulty or is the problem with the software.

ps i tried my camera on a friends imac same problem using same firewire cable and also tried a sony hdv camera & still FCP imovie quicktime etc wouldn’t recognise any of the cameras.

so far i have tried – FCP7 – FCPX10 – final cut express – imovie – quicktime none have recognised the camera.

i can connect my camera using (elgato video capture) software which is via Red white audio cables & yellow video cable but the quality is terrible,it makes the video into a 700mb mp4 straight from original tape recording.
Gary Graham
October 14, 2013 at 10:09 pm in reply to: canon xl1s & final cut pro 7.0.3

thanks trying that shortly the firewire 800 cable im using is new from maplin store 2 days ago.
Gary Graham
October 9, 2013 at 7:21 pm in reply to: scale 4.3 to 16.9 final cut pro

yeah thats what i meant all the footage was on a tripod in a static position without excessive zooming panning etc.
Gary Graham
October 9, 2013 at 4:58 am in reply to: scale 4.3 to 16.9 final cut pro

can the footage all filmed on a static camera with a tripod be converted to 16.9
by using the wireframe in FCP
Gary Graham
October 8, 2013 at 5:43 am in reply to: scale 4.3 to 16.9 final cut pro

as long as i can get the footage into 16.9 i would be happy.

the footage i have was recorded in 4.3 SD on a canon xl1s video camera.

if i could scale it to 16.9 SD that would be ideal to tie in with other footage recorded in 16.9 SD on other cameras.