Final Cut 6.0.3 not recognizing HDV deck for recording

Are you editing in prores or other format than HDV? If you can capture, FCP must "see" your deck. Can you play the timeline and just manually hit record on your deck?

Just wanting to confirm - what are your sequence settings?

Also how are you monitoring you audio and video ie: through firewire to the deck and then to the monitors?

I'm not familiar with your deck but usually if you can see the video of the timeline on the built in screen of the deck and audio on the decks meters it's a simple matter of playing the timeline and hitting record on the deck.

The typical set up is firewire to the deck and out from the deck to your audio and video monitors. Hence you are able to edit while observing the process on external monitors. So it sounds like this is working for you?

FCP has a history of problems using "Print to Tape" but just playing the timeline and hitting record on the deck always worked.

Is it just print to tape that doesn't work or can you not even monitor the timeline externally through your deck period?

Is the drop down menu under View/External Video/set to "All Frames" Also try one lower "Refresh Video Devices"

check in your audio/video settings under the Final Cut Pro menu at the top left. Go to the last tab (A/V devices) and make sure you don't have a check mark for "Different Output for Print to Video/Edit to Tape".

It sounds like sequence settings.

Try going to Easy setup in the FCP drop down menu and setting HDV 60i and opening a new sequence. See if you can display color bars on the deck. If not try rebooting and open a new sequence and try to view color bars again.

Do you have a different cable you can try?

i haven't used this deck in a while, but see if in the menu or front panel there is some kind of *HDV/DV in* setting. It may be set to take input from composite or component only. I don't know about the one you have but the DSR-25 and DSR-11 have a switch on the front panel that lets you change what the input source is. Choices are:DV, S-video, and video.

Look for something that says input source HDV or DV. It may be in DV input mode. This would not affect your output (ability to capture FROM) because that is dictated by the tape. Input is dictated by this switch.

i wasn't talking about the Easy Setup in FCP. I was talking about the Sony Deck menu. It may even be on the front panel. I don't think this is a FCP issue. I think your deck has the wrong input setting. If you don't set it to HDV, it won't pass that info along through the firewire and FCP will think it is a DV deck.

RedTruck wrote:
i wasn't talking about the Easy Setup in FCP.

Hi Red truck, thanks for chiming in. I think slottodd was responding to my query here with this comment. In one of his earlier posts he does mention that his deck is set to "HDV In" so that sounds in order unless there's a menu setting that also needs to be checked.

Slottodd, go to the canvas window and at the bottom right there is a button with a film icon on it. Select color bars 1080i and you should get bars and tone. It should show on your deck and you can drag it to the timeline also.

I was having the same problem, I had my Canon XH-A1 connected via FireWire to my Mac, and I was editing HDV 1080i60 video, I logged and captured video okay I did all the editing fine, until I tried to output my 30 sec commercial back to my XH-A1. After a lot of reading and testing, even tried a new FW cable.
This is it: Turn your camera on, put it on VCR, ( make sure the FW cable is unplug from the camera at
this time ) go to menu SIGNAL SETUP go to PLAYBACK STD enter and select DV, exit the menu and connect the FireWire cable, you should be back to normal. Go the to FCP and make sure audio and video settings are correct, remember to set to HD FIRE WIRE BASIC.
Good lock to all!