Re: Capture HDV at ProRes using HD-SDI from Sony HVR-1500

Did you have the Kona and deck referenced? If you don't have a reference video signal, then I suspect the Kona will generate a sync signal that you can feed into the deck (I have a Decklink which does this).

Without reference it is more likely that there will be phantom breaks. When you capture via firewire, FCP syncs to the incoming data which may explain the different capture behaviour.

It is also possible to capture as HDV but render in ProRes. It is a setting in sequence settings under the render tab.