<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You do not use USB with Final Cut, unless you have a chip or drive-based camera (AVDHD)<div><br></div><div>You use the firewire cable for capturing the HDV in Final Cut Pro. <div>There is a small conversion to QT, but your files are native HDV.<div>You use the Sony 1080i HDV preset.</div><div><br><div>If you have Final Cut Express, during the capture process the media is transcoded to Apple Intermediate Codec.</div><div><br></div><div>The camera (and it's slightly smaller sibling the A1U) is very popular with the pro-sumer crowd. Lots of pros buying them for their home movies and 2nd camera/backups to their full size cameras.</div><div><br></div><div> regards,</div><div> sb</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><html>On Apr 4, 2008, at 10:31 AM, James Asherman wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I don't know about DM tapes,( special DV tapes for HD ?) but I looked up the camera. It looks interesting. 3 Cmos Sony. HDV.<div>It appears to take pretty regular DV cassettes. But likes DVCAM cassettes better.</div><div>Since it has the firewire It should work for straight capture with DV and DVCAM.</div><div>But when using the HDV format it probably needs to do a data transfer from the USB. (Log and Transfer in FCP)</div><div>some specs:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family: Verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><li>Tape Format DVCAM Small Cassette <br></li><li>HDMI Output: HDMI Connector</li></span><div>On Apr 4, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Shirley Kehr wrote:</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>