[Jasmine1919]

Firewire has a limit of 7.5 metres, after that you switch with fibre optics…

[Jasmine1919]

Does that mean that I ll have to re-digitize the footage making sure the setup is on dv-pal for the timeline as well as the project. I normaly easy setup, so I guess the timeline set up did not follow that one time?

do i make sense… what can i do is there any way of not having to re-digitize the footage?

[Jasmine1919]

Thanks guys,

yes i am using HDV, so my question is answered! 😉

x Jasmine

[Jasmine1919]

reinstalling Quicktime has solved the problem, I dont know why… may be something got mixed up with the older version when i upgraded it..who knows… but yeah getting rid of all the quicktime76565 something receipts, and only the ones followed by a serial number, and reinstalling it has worked.

cheers to the help guys thanks 🙂

[Jasmine1919]

thanks that seems to be spot on! I will have a go after a few hours sleep…and will post the results 🙂

Jasmine

[Jasmine1919]

Thanks,

Imovie gets it, which means the cable and the camera are set-up properly. Now I went into capture presets with the camera on and it is on dv-pal 48hz, it sais “warning: video device dv video is missing” and yet beneath It notes the Canon… what can i do? what am i doing wrong?

[Jasmine1919]

sound good, but why would you need to actually delete the quicktime file? I have not imported any files with the 7 version yet, they are all from previous versions i guess. What i mean is that is just upgraded my final cut to 5.1 and since then did not capture anything.. because it is not working..

what do you think? Which one of your file was responsible, can you tell?

[Jasmine1919]

yes it is a typo, and i am getting desperate for help here, imagine that even the bloody 10 metre bnc cable had the cable head colours mixed up on both ends! Imagine! blue becomes green and green ands in blue… magic…

Either way I am still not getting any image from the vhs… i am getting the DVD image in black and white (its a vhs/dvd) player. yet even when setting the machine on vhs it refuses to play it… i am a bit lost and would really need to get these tapes done by tonight….

to recap:

vhs to blackmagic HD extreme
video input on Decklink prefs set to “Y in analogue”, component cable going from green (y) jack in the vhs player into the Y-in of the Decklink loom. FCP easy set-up to PAL – 10bits

… and what i have is a “no video input” sign on the capture screen which is broken up by some black tape action, as if i was forwarding or rewinding it. Also, when i actually do rewind or forward the tape i clearly see that something (black) is happening, and this is only made clear because the “no video input” sign goes away for longer…

i am missing a piece of this jigsaw and would really appreciate any help …

thanks a lot

[Jasmine1919]

back to start, fcp works again.. i trashed all user-prefs.
I have now put the Y (green) cable into the Y in of the blackmagic loom, have set the Blackmagi in syst. prefs onto “NTSC/PAL (Y in) Analogue XLR Audio” – video output, my fcp easy setup settings onto pal 10 bit…. and what i receive is a “no video input sign” on the canvas disturbed by some tape action in black.. no image though… i tried other tapes but it is the same….

can you help me please?

[Jasmine1919]

everything sorted, got rid of the user prefs

😉