Ive been trained on Avid but that was in 2002. Its been 8 years since I've used Avid and I've never used Media Composer so I'm a little rusty, hope someone can help.

I'm using a Canon HV30 to capture from. I have it plugged directly into my comp. The Avid recognizes the camera and will take control of it. I open the capture tool, set my V1 and A1, push the capture button, the camera starts to play, but the computer is not recording anything.

Is there something I'm missing??

Thanks
JIM

Did you select a bin to capture the clips to? Are you seeing the video in the composer monitor?

Can you shuttle and control deck? In DECK PREFERENCES under SETTINGS you did select your camera/deck as the machine (or at least generic dv device). If you can shuttle, have v & a1/a2 tracks selected you should be able to capture. Did you specify a media drive?

Jim,

Double check and make sure that you're in the right project settings for HDV/30.
1. Make sure you're in HDV raster size, 1440x1080
2. Make sure you're project is in 1080i.
3. Make sure you're format tab is not in 30i.

I think that might be your problem.

Hope this helps, David

Could be the camera, too. They have the ability to downconvert from HDV to DV on the fly. But if you have an HDV project, and downconvert on in the camera, Avid detects it as a DV cam and it doesn't work.

Ive been trained on Avid but that was in 2002. Its been 8 years since I've used Avid and I've never used Media Composer so I'm a little rusty, hope someone can help.

I'm using a Canon HV30 to capture from. I have it plugged directly into my comp. The Avid recognizes the camera and will take control of it. I open the capture tool, set my V1 and A1, push the capture button, the camera starts to play, but the computer is not recording anything.

Is there something I'm missing??

Thanks
JIM

Jim - one of the great things about Avid is the capture tool hasn't changed much in 8 years. Check the things the guys said but also if you have hardware IO connected make sre you have the correct video and audio input selected - in this case IEEE1394. Mind you the Avid will pump up an error message if you don't - failed to detect incoming video or audio signal.

Also remember you have to hit the red button when you start and stop recording to drop the clip automatically into a bin. The ed button should flash if it is working correctly.

You did select video & audio tracks for capture, right?

I have the same camera and apart from some issues with capturing some times, it captures fine.