Camcorders Final Cut Pro
I can’t get my Panasonic gs180 to appear. I need to capture in Final Cut pro?
I cant get the panasocnic gs180 to appear. But maybe its not supposed to. Ive always worked with camcorders that save clips as .mp4s then i just import them into final cut pro. now i have to log and capture but I cant get it to work. Its recorded on to a mini DV tape. I go to log and capture and it doesn’t anything to capture. I also don’t know the apsect ratio/video format that it was shot in. I go under the settings in the camera and he says my “cinema mode” and “wide mode” are both off…
i know i should change my settings in my video format in final cut to be what i shot it in… but i dont know what that was.
any help?
thanks
Snowwillow is on it.
But you did not tell us which Mac you are using. The MacBook Air and *some* MacBooks have no firewire port and no way to add one. Assuming you want digital video at best quality, you need to find a Mac with a firewire port and import using it, then transfer the video and project files to the Mac on which you will be editing.
ALL other Macs made in the last 15 years have a firewire port. It can be 6-pin or 9-pin. The camcorder’d DV port is 4-pin. So you need a firewire cable that is either
4-pin to 6-pin
or
4-pin to 9-pin
depending on the Mac.
USB won’t work. USB-to-firewire cable/converter/adapter things won’t work.
Firewire, IEEE1394, DV and i.LINK are all the same thing – and they are not USB.
When properly connected, nothing will “appear” on the desktop like a hard drive or flash memory camcorder. When you launch iMovie or Final Cut, it will show the camcorder connected and allow the video to be imported – or captured (or allow Log & Capture).
The camcorder needs to be in “Play” mode.
Final Cut should sense that the camcorder is attached and adjust to DV (unless you have an older Mac or older version of Final Cut – in which case you have to select the DV format when creating a new project).
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