[MacDV] Re: MXProDV

[R B Williams]

We capture directly from the MxProDV to a Pyro DV (portable firewire direct drive)

You can then daisy chain to capture into a Powerbook running Final Cut Software at the
same time, but I wouldn't do that as the only recording!

The Videonics board works straight to a Canon XL1s too, so I would have thought any
minidv cam could record via the firewire in. Sorry, but I don't have any Sony equipment
to troubleshoot.

R.B.

James Asherman wrote:

> On Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 03:38  PM, Colin McDonald wrote:
>
> > OK I'm now using an MXProDV  Video Mixer.  At little hard work at
> > first, but easy with a bit of practice (doesn't autodetect - needs
> > routes set up).
> >
> > Now for the probs:
> >
> > 1 It doesn't seem to work with iMovie - iMovie 4 sees it as as an
> > unknown DV device and complains that it doesn't have device control
> > and won't import from it. iMovie 3 doesn't detect it at all.
>
> No device control is what you are going to get. Normal.
>
> >
> > 2 I can't get SONY cameras (tried 3) to see the MXProDV through the DV
> > out either so I have no means of recording the output via DV at the
> > moment. Not an immediate problem because my first gig is live to
> > projector screens and that works fine on S Video or composite. I could
> > probably record to a camera that way too but the point was to keep it
> > digital. I am going to borrow a HD video recorder and give that a shot
> > but I had assumed that anything that was described as FireWire DV
> > would be compatible. Not so?
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Colin McDonald
> >
>
> Only one. Experiment with what order you turn everything on in.
> J
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