Trying to daisychain 8mm camera to DVX-100 to FCP

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Trying to daisychain 8mm camera to DVX-100 to FCP

I've been trying to daisychain a VCR/8mm camcorder through the DVX-100 VCR to capture through FCP to transfer old home movies. There seems to be communication between the devices because I get a preview of the VHS/8mm footage in the FCP Log and Capture window.

The issue is that Capture Now won't directly capture it, I just get a "waiting for timecode" message, which I've tried to remedy by putting the camera in Free Run timecode mode, which also did not fix the problem. When I load a tape into the camera, it just stops it within a second's time.

Any ideas on how to make this work?

Running:

Macbook Pro 10.6.8

Final Cut Pro 6.0

DVX-100 w/ firewire

Posted on Dec 14, 2011 9:01 AM

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Nick Holmes

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Dec 14, 2011 9:08 AM in response to hilfderk13287

You need to change Log & Capture's capture setting to "Non-Controllable device" and start the tape manually, then click the "Now" button in the L&C window.

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Answer 2

Dec 14, 2011 10:12 AM in response to hilfderk13287

**** YEA! thank you so much! I've been recording to tape then capturing to the computer this whole time

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Answer 3

Jul 5, 2012 6:39 PM in response to hilfderk13287

I have been working through the same steps to convert home videos to digital and was wondering what cords did you use to daisychain it to the Mac?

Thanks.

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