[Ric Christoferson]

[Arniepix] “Buy Photoshop Extreme”

I think you mean Extended… Photoshop CS3

Thanks for the tip

[Ric Christoferson]

So my take on the install of FCS 2 is that the old soundtrack media is duplicated in a different location when the “Yes” button is checked…

and I will have to remove duplicate files by hand.

What about motion…

does FCS 2 remove old template and other files from older motion ???

thanks

[Ric Christoferson]

Thought I would post my fix for the problem… I needed to keep my old system work intact because we do weekly tv spots and have to have a working system for that. G5 Duel – FCP 5.1.2 – Tiger 4.6
Sooo.. with all the stuff I had on my system hd.. I just could not get FCP to see the Sony HD Camera.

1) I took an empty external Firewire drive and loaded a clean version of Tiger on it… Then Booted the computer from the external… then ran through all the updates.. to 10.4.6… this HD was plugged into the front Firewire port (400) of the computer..

2) Took my FCP 5.1 cross platform CD’s That apple sent me and loaded that in the drive… I selected to only install FCP and Compressor… when though the install, entered all my numbers and then repaired desk permissions and all that… then check the system for anymore updates did several…. repaired disk permissions…. restarted the computer… booting from the external HD .. hooked up the camera (to the Firewire port in the back 400) — opened FC and went to easy setup 1080(60i) and everything worked… saw the camera and load and capture worked great…

Now I have this spare drive with a system and final cut only.. that does a great job of caturing HD footage over firewire…

🙂

[Ric Christoferson]

I posted the wrong camera designation… Should be a HDR-Z1U Camera…

thanks

[Ric Christoferson]

[henninc] “not sure if that’s true for the camera but on the sony hdv deck you have to
disable “auto” in the menu where you switch between hdv and dv mode (setting it to hdv)
to get the deck recognized by fcp.”

We have the blue light on the camera set to “HDV” … Have disabled “auto”…

still no control of deck…. in FCP… gee your guys are great … thanks for your thoughts…

any more??

ric

[Ric Christoferson]

Been there.. no luck with easy setup HDV 1080i/60 … “Unable to Initialize capture device”

thanks for your help.. any other Ideas??

ric

[Ric Christoferson]

Tried this several times… keep getting “unagle to initialize capture device” We have gone through the settings in the camera and most all of the settings in FCP…

FCP does see the camera and can load footage in DV NTSC Bacis but then we are not getting the 1080 60 thought the firewire….

any other ideas???

Has any one had success with capturing footage through Firewire, FCP 5.1.2 and the Sony HVR-Z1U in 1080 60i ????

thanks again

[Ric Christoferson]

it is set to normal…

[Ric Christoferson]

I’ve always run with 100% frame rate and 100% resolution… it just is slower..

[Ric Christoferson]

thanks for your reply… but this must be done as described… Script submitted at 10AM and audio needs to be recorded by noon… timing of the voice over is exact so I need to be able to hear and record the different cuts.

I have found this device..

https://www.jkaudio.com/compack_dtails.htm

but I guess I would need two of them.. one at remore location and one in studio..

ric