Sony HVR-A1U and FCE HD 3.5?

Hi(Bonjour)!

Sony camcorders work well with FCE. (but not the DVD recorder models)

The HVR-A1U is a broadcast HDV quality camcorder. It have many connectors, including the IEEE-1364 (firewire).

HDV format is supported by FCE toward Apple intermediate Codec (final Cut Pro can handles it natively).

Beware, some broadcast format for DV, like DVCAM, and true 24p, are not supported by FCE.

I never had problem with Sony camcorders to capture/print to tape with FCE and iMovie.

Apple do not check all camcorders models, but just one provided by manufacturer of camcorder.

Try some search in this forum, or in FCP with the name of your model.

Michel Boissonneault

Well...I did some research on this....there are Several Threads, with many posts, so I guess anyone interested will have to check them out to...but I'm going to put this information here and maybe on some of the other posts, hoping for a real & specific answer

MY QUESTION: DOES THE SONY HVR-A1U WORK WITH FCEXPRESS HD 3.5. ANYBODY KNOW --- FOR SURE.



This quoted info, below, indicates there may be some problems using HDV material and MPEG-2 video format...but, as mentioned, I don't know: I'm trying to find out before investing in this camcorder.

QUOTED INFO:

Mac users have to expend a bit of effort to obtain a suitable FireWire input/output utility. Apple has released a FireWire SDK for developers. Thankfully, in the latest releases of the FireWire SDK, Apple has included a utility that allows the transfer of MPEG-2 over FireWire. The application is called DVHScap and can be found in the Application folder in the SDK package. You will need to search for “FireWire SDK” at the developers' page at the Apple website (www.apple.com).



Importing HDV into an NLE

To edit HDV material, a transport stream must be “demuxed” into audio and video elementary streams. This can be accomplished using a separate utility — or the capability could be built into an NLE. NLEs that can accept a transport stream include MPEG Edit Studio Pro 1.2 LE and Vegas 4.0. While neither Adobe Premiere 6.5 nor Premiere Pro can import MPEG-2 transport streams, they can import Wavelet-compressed files from Aspect HD.

The OS X MoreMissingTools ( http://homepage.mac.com/rnc) shareware utility can be used to demux a transport stream to MP2 audio and MPEG-2 video. And the m=Madplaywrap (www.underbit.com/products/mad) shareware utility, also for OS X, can be used to convert MP2 audio to an AIFF file. Unfortunately, there is an obstacle to using MoreMissingTools.

The JVC MPEG-2 video elementary stream file is incompatible with Apple's MPEG-2 decoder ($20). Therefore, MPEG-2 .m2v files output by MoreMissingTools cannot be played by Apple's QuickTime Player nor imported into Final Cut Pro.

See your other thread.

You say DVCAM is not supported by FCE - the only difference with regular DV is the locked sound, does this make it incompatible? (It records faster then DV but I can't see how this would effect importing)

Ned C

DVCAM works fine with FCE.