sony hdv deck

could someone let me know how to capture footage from my deck. it doesn't show up at all when i hit import from camera?

thanks

Adam... I'm curious. Can you capture clips through quicktime 7?

You can open up quicktime 7, then select "edit/new movie recording"

Open quicktime preferences and under the recording tab, make sure the video source is set to the hdv vcr, quality should be "device native" and select where to save the files to.

If your mac can't see the footage from the firewire in quicktime, I imagine that it's a hardware issue between the deck and the cable.

Do you have FCP7? You might try that as well.

If Quicktime can bring the footage in but FCX can't, at least you still have a way to ingest it. I don't know if the timecode comes in with quicktime.

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I believe you can wipe the system drive, install snow leopard, install FCP 6, then upgrade to Lion and install everything else.

That requires formatting your drive and starting from scratch. A few ways to do it...best to do a Google search for: "how to reformat drive and do fresh install of snow leopard". FCP 6 will install fine on SL and then you can do the leopard upgrade after.

Sorry...I meant you can do the Lion update later ;-)

I was responding to the OP question about installing FCP 6, specifically, on Lion. In order to run 6 on Lion, you must first install SL, then FCP 6, then Lion. Lion doesn't support Rosetta and FCP 6 requires Rosetta to install. And since it appears as though they are just getting started on a new machine, now would be a good time to do so ;-)

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timothy,

i have been using the exact settings that are suggested in that link. it seems the imac just isn't reading the firewire connecting at all.

it seems atmomos are having problems with firewire and 10.02 as well. speaking to their helpdesk they said i have to use usb for the time being with my ninja.

last night i discovered a storage intensive workaround (60 mins = 85 gb). i simply conect the sony deck via hdmi to the ninja, press play on the deck and rec on the ninja. the files open in fcp x.

i spent an hour with apple support on the phone and all they could say was try a different cable.

thanks timothy,

i did the system check and i go to hardware then firewire and all it thats their is the speed. am i looking in the right place?

adam

cheers timothy,

must be either the cable or the deck than...

you've been much more help than apple support...

i'll check ebay for a hv30

adam