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[Adam Gold]

Right, but going back to the original post, there's no point in trying to do this via HDMI as there's no advantage over FW capture. No need for the extra HW and SW involved with HDMI capture.

[Stephan Stryhanyn]

Originally Posted by Lee Berger

You can't improve upon the original signal, but if you transcode to a better codec (ProRes or Cineform) then all of your renders and composting will look better.

Don't need HDMI for that (unless that's live recording). Capture HDV over Firewire with device control, then the NLE converts to intermediate codec on the fly or batch - automatically. They will even upsample chroma to 4:2:2 for you.

[Lee Berger]

Originally Posted by Stephan Stryhanyn

Capture HDV over Firewire with device control, then the NLE converts to intermediate codec on the fly or batch - automatically. They will even upsample chroma to 4:2:2 for you.

Which NLE is that? Certainly not Final Cut Pro which can only capture HDV to HDV via FireWire with device control. Without device control you can capture HDV to ProRes or Apple Intermediate Codec via FireWire.

[Martyn Hull]

Originally Posted by Martyn Hull

In hd mode it will always be 16:9 .i dont use Premier but take it your pc does not have a firewire[hdmi]slot so you use the capture card.The FX- is no different to any hdv cam regarding capture so it is not that your cam is not supported.

Sorry i did not mean hdmi but ilink 1394,other names for firewire.This is the only way i have ever captured from fx-7 and hc-1.

[Stephan Stryhanyn]

Originally Posted by Lee Berger

Which NLE is that? Certainly not Final Cut Pro which can only capture HDV to HDV via FireWire with device control. Without device control you can capture HDV to ProRes or Apple Intermediate Codec via FireWire.

EDIUS has device control and batch capture, and captures HDV directly into Canopus HQ intermediate with timecode. Routine built-in workflow, that's the way the software was designed.

Regarding Adobe Premiere with Cineform, I recall from early tests that Cineform's HD Link utility has device control and works like a 2-step capture-then-transcode. I'm not sure they went to the point of implementing batch capture though, their FAQ says so (through Premiere's capture interface) but Adam might elaborate on this much better than I could.

Sorry about FCP / ProRes - I knew then forgot about that altogether, and I stand corrected.

[Lee Berger]

Originally Posted by Stephan Stryhanyn

EDIUS has device control and batch capture, and captures HDV directly into Canopus HQ intermediate with timecode.

That would be a nice feature on FCP. Thanks.

[Adam Gold]

Originally Posted by Stephan Stryhanyn

Regarding Adobe Premiere with Cineform, I recall from early tests that Cineform's HD Link utility has device control and works like a 2-step capture-then-transcode. I'm not sure they went to the point of implementing batch capture though, their FAQ says so (through Premiere's capture interface) but Adam might elaborate on this much better than I could.

I never use HDLink, but I always do batch capture using a Cineform preset through Premiere. Each clip is captured normally and then takes a couple of seconds to convert. If you're batch capturing, it takes longer to find the next clip than it does to decompress -- the processes occur simultaneously -- so there is no difference in total elapsed time. Full device control but no scene detect.

HDLink does scene detect, but for me it always seems to capture 15,000 clips of one frame each. There's probably a setting I'm missing somewhere.

[Graham Hickling]

Deleted post - repeated a point made previously.

[Leslie Wand]

Originally Posted by Stephan Stryhanyn

EDIUS has device control and batch capture, and captures HDV directly into Canopus HQ intermediate with timecode.

so i can use an edl and simply type in a bunch of i/o's and it will batch capture via firewire!?

are you sure?

will it capture straight to m2t as well?

if it does, then i'd buy edius tomorrow for it batch capture which is the only problem i have with vegas pro.

leslie

[Stephan Stryhanyn]

I can't say about EDLs, I never needed to re-capture. And for some reason the batch list edit tool is awkward in EDIUS, so it only takes instead a simple Excel sheet to type In/Out capture points and generate a .csv file that EDIUS will use as the batch capture list. Press capture and go get a cup of coffee while the device control does its work.

About m2t, I don't know. The strength of EDIUS lies in its native intermediate codec editing which brings those real-time editing & CC capabilities. EDIUS also supports native HDV editing, but as it just defeated my purpose of avoiding native MPEG2 editing, I've never tried it. Get a trial maybe?

[Leslie Wand]

thanks stephan,

i'll download a trial and give it a whirl. be pretty good if it does....