DVHSCap to Capture HDV VIdeo

FCP does not support the JVC GR-HD1U but I have found that people have been successful capturing the video through Apple's DVHSCap then converting the data to .m2t transport files using MPEG Streamclip (I will post what I read below). I have downloaded DVHSCap but cannot figure out how to capture the vide from my camcorder. If anyone is familiar with DVHSCap I would very much appreciate some advice. Thank you all very much for your time!
Andrew


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Iam looking for the correct FCP set ups for digitizing HD from the
JVC JY-HD10 .recorded on the camera in HD mode.
I can get camera control -FFW -ply- rewind- but no video in the digitiz window?
FCP 4.5 1.33 G4 powerbook 1 gig ram

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Apple and FCP 4.5 do not yet officially support JVC's HDV camcorders.

However, I have had very good results, over the past year, using Apple Development software to capture HDV files from my GR-HD1U. Then using free-ware software to convert the resulting .m2t transport files to QuickTime .mov files. I then drop the QT.mov files into an FCP bin and edit as usual using FCP.

I use Apple's DVHSCap application to capture HDV camcorder data tapes via firewire and convert the data to .m2t transport files. DVHSCap (for Panther) can be obtained by going to:

www.apple.com/firewire/
click on 'FireWire SDK 19 for Mac OS X (Download)
double click XFireWireSDK19e.pkg (to install the SDK)

DVHSCap (and similar VirtualDVHS) can be found in
/Developer/FireWireSDK19/Applications/

I also use a freeware program 'MPEG Streamclip 1.0.1', which is available from:

http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html

I use MPEG Streamclip to:
1) Locate clips of interest and set their 'in' and 'out' points,
2) Set the, optional, number of 'bad lines' to crop from the sides and top of each frame,
3) Re-scale, if desired, to 720p or 1080p,
4) Export to QuickTime...
5) Drop the resulting QT.mov file, which contains synced 'video and audio' data, into an FCP bin.