FCP doesn't recognize VTR mode on HVX camera

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FCP doesn't recognize VTR mode on HVX camera

I'm new to FCP7 and can't figure out why log and capture doesn't recognize the VTR mode on my Panasonic HVX. I turn on the camera, switch it to VTR (by pressing the MCR/VCR button) and the launch FCP with my MBP connected to the camera by FireWire. When I launch L&C and the click on the now button, I get a black screen that says the camera must be in VTR mode. Yet when I launch iMovie, the capture window will play and record the video on the camera just fine. The video is on a miniDV tape. I don't have a P2 card so can't try that method.

Posted on Aug 20, 2012 12:32 PM

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Dan Bryant1 Author

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Aug 20, 2012 12:35 PM in response to Dan Bryant1

Hmmm, typing on my iPad and not sure how the "&" became "&" in the middle of that message.

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Dan Bryant1 Author

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Aug 20, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Dan Bryant1

Well it did it again! &&&&!

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Shane Ross

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Aug 20, 2012 2:10 PM in response to Dan Bryant1

L&C! Did that work?

OK...the thing you need to do first in FCP is choose the DV/NTSC Easy Setup. THEN try to capture from tape.

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Dan Bryant1 Author

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Aug 20, 2012 2:23 PM in response to Shane Ross

L&C! Did that work?

Works for you & I can do it from my MBP, but evidently not from my iPad. Weird.

OK...the thing you need to do first in FCP is choose the DV/NTSC Easy Setup. THEN try to capture from tape.

Yeah, did that first. I'll try again when I get home tonight.

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Aug 20, 2012 2:29 PM in response to Dan Bryant1

Are you pressing the play button on your camera before you press capture Now ?

DM

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Dan Bryant1 Author

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Aug 20, 2012 2:48 PM in response to David Mclaine

David Mclaine wrote:

Are you pressing the play button on your camera before you press capture Now ?

DM

Good grief, this would be the problem of transitioning from iMovie to FCP! In iMovie, those controls are on screen so I just assumed the same would be true for FCP. Figured it had to be something simple I was overlooking. I'll give it a try and see if that was it. Thanks.

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Nick Holmes

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Aug 20, 2012 3:03 PM in response to Dan Bryant1

>...those controls are on screen so I just assumed the same would be true for FCP.

They are and it is. Unless you have FCP's Device Control setting on "Non-Controllable Device".

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Dan Bryant1 Author

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Aug 20, 2012 6:08 PM in response to Nick Holmes

For some reason I had in my mind that you do the capture now before you hit the play button. Like I said, I am a newbie! Found the player controls on screen and got it all to work. Thanks all!

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