Justin Toops
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Thanks Walter!
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This may be to late, but check the deck’s manual. I’ve seen at least with some of the Sony decks that you can’t send some formats over firewire (DVCPRO25 for example). The manual would say, “muted over firewire”… this would make sense because you can still send the signal S-Video.
-Justin
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Groan. Page 1 of my manual: “When playing back a tape recorded in DVCPRO(25M) format, the SDTI and i.LINK outputs of this unit are muted.”
I don’t have a capture card on my FCP system… i’ve always used firewire. So, other than going S-Video into my camcorder and firewiring it out of there… do I have any other options you can think of?
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Yeah – I’m going firewire in. When I try to capture, all I see in my capture window is “Preview Disabled”… timecode is running, but no picture. This never happens when I go normal DV-NTSC in… but only when I try and capture from DVCPRO tapes. (Get this – if I hook up the deck S-video to my DV Camera, and then go Firewire out of my camera into FCP 4.5, then bring it in as an Uncontrolled device, I can see the preview just fine. NOT THAT I WOULD WANT TO… I just can.)
I can see the signal on my external monitor… so it’s getting lost/jumbled somewhere before getting to FCP. I’m using a Sony DSR-2000 deck.
-Justin
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My error – it was shot DVCPRO25 at 24fps. Can I still bring this in using DV50 codec?
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Don’t bother exporting as a quicktime from Livetype (unless you have a slower computer). Instead, just save the file as a livetype, and then import it as such into FCP. Then you can scrub through the file on your timeline to see how it works. If it doesn’t look any good (eg, too big and outside sife areas…) then right click on the clip and select “open in editor”. FCP will open Livetype for you and you can make your changes there. Once you save your changes, it will update it in FCP automatically. This saves you tons of exporting in livetype time.
Hope this helps.
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In the color swatch box, click on the magnifying glass to the left of the color bar. That will let you select a color. The “eye dropper tool” for LiveType is the Magnifying Glass.
-Toops