Josh Olenslager
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I’ve seen this happen when there isn’t enough hard drive space for the capture destination. There is also a limiter in FCP under “system settings” on the “capture scratch” tab.
Josh
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Alex,
first thing you should check is that your FCP easy setup matches the incoming footage. (Assuming NTSC DV firewire basic.) Often times that clears up communication problems; however, if you haven’t done so already, check your cables from your system and your deck to make sure nothing is loose. Once you’ve launched your capture window with the project properly set up, everything should be good. If FCP is still having trouble recognizing the deck, go to the “capture settings” tab in the capture window and select “non-controllable” device. You’ll lose timecode information and have to do a capture now, but it should at least allow you to grab the footage.
Good luck!
Josh
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Eric,
The DVCpro HD codec comes only packaged with the studio software, so unless you’ve got FCP installed on you computer, chances of finding a plugin is slim — I do think there are a few decoders that you can buy that can decode it. If you search the threads, I believe a link shouldn’t be difficult to find. Not sure what’s up with the HDV settings. It might be the same, but I’m not positive. The link I sent is the components link, so something might be there. I suppose the next step is to ask what your end use is going to be. If you export PhotoJPEG, which is a universal compression, you shouldn’t have trouble with the video being blanked with any reader or any computer. If you need something beefier, you might have to go uncompressed, but plugins for this are relatively easy to find.
Josh
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Eric,
That is absolutely right. It seems like your QT player is missing an HDV reader or something. You could try exporting a DVCproHD 1080i50 setting; that should work for you. HDV is not my favorite to work with, and I’m sure that a lot of people would agree. You might find a plug-in here, but if not just try exporting with a different codec:
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html
Good luck!
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Open up one of the Quicktime exports with the blanked video and hit cmd-I to open the information box. There is a “Format” line which contains your codec information. If you’ve deleted the bad exports, right-click your sequence tab in Final Cut and select “settings.” The compressor setting in the tab “general” is your coding information. What is your setting?
Josh
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No Jason, you’re not speaking out of turn. It is available as PDF in the help drop-down, and a real convenience for these type of issues.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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That’s right, don’t match the Timeline to the HD specs.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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If you want your final export to be 16:9, then you’ll be either up-cropping or making your SD footage anamorphic. This will impact the quality and cause some issues. If you want your edit to be 4:3 then you’ll be taking your HD footage down to match that frame size (letterbox, anamorphic, or crop which I recommend), but it shouldn’t affect the physical quality. If all you need for your end export is SD, definitely use a 4:3 editing base.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Easiest way is to use the wireframe function in the canvas viewer. Make sure your sequence settings for your edit are what you want to export after your edit (HD or SD), then just resize the footage. Using compressor seems a bit much for what you’re asking here. Might be worthwhile to borrow a manual or check one out or something. Pretty simple to figure out. Use the “help” drop-down and use the PDF version. Might also want to watch and log your footage before capturing all 8 hours, too; probably save you some time (and lots of space, esp. on a campus system) in the long run.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Eric,
It sounds like you’re missing a codec plug-in if it’s coming out with a black screen. I’ve seen this happen a number of times. If you’re exporting uncompressed, you might need a blackmagic plug-in, or maybe an HDV update. It’s weird though that you would be seeing the video in Final Cut, but not in Quicktime after you’ve exported. But it sounds like a codec issue since the video is blanked. Might just have to update Quicktime. Have you tried that? I suggest that you export a little sample using QT conversion into a different codec, like PhotoJPEG or something, just so that you can check that the video is actually being packaged with the audio. But try updating you Quicktime player first; that might just fix what you’re seeing.
Good luck!
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion