Best way to capture live video
My students capture live video from a production switcher to a MacBook Pro via firewire using iMovie 6 HD and it works fine. We edit in FCE, so they have to render the video (sometimes over 2 yrs of footage) becasue iMovie captures in a different DV format. It's a real pain.
What we would like to do is capture DIRECTLY to FCE, but it always drops out when we try a live capture. I was told to install QTPro, and that didn't help.
We also captured right to QTPro, which works, but we still have to render in FCE.
What are we doing wrong? I searched these forums and came up with a lot that was a bit overwhelming.
Thank you.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)