Preview Disabled in log capture window

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Preview Disabled in log capture window

This comes up along with color bars in L&C window
im using a JVC GR-HD1 camera it is plugged in and set to VTR it does recieve control from FCP im not getting any video in the L&C window however any ideas?...

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 4 Gig Ram Motu PCI ASIO. Cubase 4.01 JVC GR-HD1 Final Cut Studio

Posted on Nov 3, 2006 2:11 PM

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TomySky

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Nov 3, 2006 2:12 PM in response to agomez

When you actually start capturing (such as a Batch Capture) you should have a new window pop up with the footage. Is that happening?
~Luke

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agomez Author

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Nov 3, 2006 2:44 PM in response to TomySky

No it gives me an error message like video is unavailable

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agomez Author

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Nov 3, 2006 2:46 PM in response to agomez

in fact it says this operation cannot be completed as there is no video

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TomySky

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Nov 3, 2006 2:55 PM in response to agomez

Is your Easy Setup the same as your camera's presets? i.e. If you shot HDV 60i, is the Easy Setup HDV 60i?

When you start Final Cut, does it tell you that there is no deck hooked up?
~Luke

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agomez Author

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Nov 4, 2006 6:50 PM in response to TomySky

Yes it is the same and no final cut does not tell me that it does not recoginise the deck

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agomez Author

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Nov 6, 2006 11:46 AM in response to agomez

Anyone?...

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jbell

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Nov 6, 2006 12:32 PM in response to agomez

Have you tried restarting FCP? That usually fixes it when something like that happens to me.

James

Dual 2Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 2 Gig Ram, Final Cut Studio

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agomez Author

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Nov 6, 2006 1:00 PM in response to jbell

yes ive tried restarting rebooting....

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TomySky

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Nov 6, 2006 1:10 PM in response to agomez

Sorry, but I'm not coming up with anything. Could you please re-explain what you're doing and what's happening. I'm getting fuzzy.

~Luke

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agomez Author

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Nov 6, 2006 1:23 PM in response to TomySky

I have a JVC GR-HD1 mini dv cam plugged to my MacPro this machine came with OS 10.4.8 and the latest version of quicktime. I plug the cam into the MacPro's front FW port. turn machine on launch final cut. easy setup is set for DVNTSC 48kHz, ive checked capture and device control presets and they all match DV NTSC 48kHz, control preset is set for Firewire NTSC. it is always set this way never is changed. i click option 8 for L And C, the L&C window comes up but i get the color bars with the black strip running across the screen and message reading preview disabled. the transport controller in L&C controls the cam so i go ahead and log clips as per normal
once im done i click batch capture. the capture screen comes up it gives normal status as it were finding the specified timecode areas then i get an error message stating "Operation cannot be completed as there is no video."

To my observation FCP is seeing the camera and interacting with it but it is not receiving any video from it. Is the Problem FCP or the camera its a JVC GR-HD1 anyone familiar with it?.. ive replaced the firewire cable thining it might have been the problem.

any further insight on this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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agomez Author

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Nov 6, 2006 1:30 PM in response to agomez

and to add IMovie isnt recieving any video from it

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TomySky

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Nov 6, 2006 1:32 PM in response to agomez

I have had this problem once before, but, for the life of me, I can't remember what I did.

Rest assured that the problem is not in the "Preview Disabled" bit. The problem is in the "there is no video" part.

It could be that the FireWire is having problems with the "Bus", but I'm not sure. To check, change your Scratch Disk to a USB disk or the Internal drive (don't use this all the time, but for testing you should be fine). Then Eject your FireWire drive and unplug it from the system.

Now try capturing. Does that work?

I sure hope that helps. If not, I'm stuck.
~Luke

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agomez Author

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Nov 6, 2006 1:32 PM in response to TomySky

Im using an internal drive as the scratch disk

is that not good?...

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Studio X

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Nov 6, 2006 1:36 PM in response to agomez

Are you trying to download HDV footage to a DV preset? If so, what happens if you use the proper HDV easy preset?

Or if the material is HDV and you want to capture and edit it as DV, is the camera set to convert from HDV to DV before you connect it up?

x

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TomySky

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Nov 6, 2006 1:36 PM in response to agomez

Using an Internal Drive (as long as it is not your System Drive) is great. You just don't want your Media on the same drive as your Applications, because then the computer has to do twice the work on the limited "through-put" of the single drive.

But, since you're using an Internal Drive, and not FireWire, my idea is toast. Bother, I'm stumped. Not surprising, but frustrating.

I hope someone far more knowledgable than I can sort this out. I'm sorry I can't be of more assistance.
~Luke

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