Thomas Kirsch
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Thank you Jeremy for all of your responses. My sources do not have volume meters.
All in all I thought I was just missing a configuration setting in the Kona control panel since the sound volume was so much lower when the sound was recorded with the Kona PCI card compared with the volume when the sound was recorded through the sound card (same source). -
I have read the second part of your post. I unselected ‘Lock Gain To Unity’. I did not make any difference whatsoever.
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I should not have to put a mixer in-between the Kona card and the unit. The volume should record at acceptable levels by default without any manipulation.
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This is NTSC video. It looks just as bad in black and white.
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Thank you Jeremy for your suggestions. I have tried Clipwrap and was able to import the wrapped clips into Final Cut Pro. Playback of the wrapped clips looked good, but after a few seconds could not be handled anymore by my eSata drives.
I also realized that Adobe Premiere Pro let me import and use the clips directly from the camcorder without any further conversion. However in order to play back anything, I have to render. Since I will output on Blu-Ray and plan on using Adobe Encore for that, I will be exploring Adobe Premiere Pro further in order to see whether there are ways to avoid frequent rendering. -
I did get the 1080/60p files transferred (to MPEG4 or H.264) using an application called ‘HandBrake. I believe the format of the files is 1080p (not sure) and the frame rate is 59.9 (which was displayed during the transfer). Only the MPEG4 file plays with Quicktime and looks very nice. None of the files import into Final Cut Pro.
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I was mistaken. The clips I transferred were recorded at 1080/60i AVCHD and transferred to 1080i 29.97 Apple ProRes 422 (HQ). The clips recorded on this camera at 1080/60p did not display (were missing) in the Transfer and Capture Window. When I tried to explicitly open them I got an error message saying that there were some files in an incompatible format. For some reason these 1080/60p AVCHD files (at least in my hands) do not appear to be supported in Final Cut Pro as of now. I am wondering whether anyone else has managed to somehow transfer these kind of files onto a Mac?
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Thank you all for your suggestions. The Panasonic HCD-HS700 had the video recorded onto an internal hard drive.
I tried ‘Log and Transfer’ and cannot believe how easy it was to get the files onto my computer in Apple ProRes 422(HQ). I have never had to deal with a camcorder that records on a hard drive or memory card. I have always had to capture video one way or the other from camcorders that recorded on tapes..
When I selected ‘Log and Transfer’ while the camcorder was connected to the computer via USB, Final Cut Pro automatically found the video files. All I had to do was drag and drop them into a bin and they were transferred to whatever I had selected as capture settings. -
Thank you for your response. I found the selection in the audio video tab of the log and capture window and am now able to capture stereo sound. Previously I was (unsuccessfully) looking for this setting in the capture presets tab of the Audio/Video settings window.
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Thank you, Gary for your response. I now got it all working using component video via the break-out cable bnc inputs. It turned out that the three rca to bnc converters that I was using to connect the camcorder component video cable to the Kona LHi break-out cable apparently were all bad. After I replaced them with new ones, I got a nice video input signal and was able to capture the video in Final Cut Pro.
The camera I was using was a Sony HDR-FX1000. Even though the camera has no direct HDMI outputs, I was able to display the video on a monitor via HDMI. At that point the camera was connected to a receiver component video in and the HDMI video out of the receiver was connected to the monitor. When I connect the same receiver HDMI output to the Kona LHi HDMI input, then the video input in the Kona control panel is alternating between no video and the correct video signal. When I try to capture this, I get a green screen. I assume that is because the receiver might output HDCP content through its HDMI out port.