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Old February 10th, 2005, 03:01 PM   #1
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Can't capture MT2 to my Mac

Now, I'm an idiot. So start with that knowledge.

I've tried both Virtual DVHS and DVHSCap and when I try and capture the resulting MT2 file is zero bytes.

Anyone know what I'm missing here?

Thanks!
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Old February 18th, 2005, 12:59 PM   #2
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Just throwing something out that I had to search to find:

1) The camera has to be in VCR mode.
2) You need to press Play on the camera - DVHSCap doesn't controll it for you.

Maybe that will help.
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Old February 18th, 2005, 01:01 PM   #3
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Shutting everything down, camera, computer....and unplugging it sometimes helps. Restart everything and magically I bet it will work.

It's been my experience that 90% of the time.....reboot.
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Old February 18th, 2005, 03:16 PM   #4
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I should have come back to this thread once I got it working.

Turns out the camera didn't like other firewire devices plugged in at the same time. I unplugged my external HDs and it worked fine. This is just for HDV capture, in DV I can have the drives plugged in.

And I'm pretty sure DVHSCap did control my camera, thought I could be remembering wrong.
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Old February 18th, 2005, 03:51 PM   #5
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All our capture & edit drives are all USB2.0. I think that's best until I get a Network capable of DV work.

I don't think Gigabit is fast enough.

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Old February 21st, 2005, 12:00 PM   #6
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the old versions of firewireSDK have trouble recognizing the FX1-Z1 stream, try FirewireSDK19, it's much more stable and it recognizes it instantly.
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Old February 21st, 2005, 12:14 PM   #7
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By the way, a gigabit network (with a gigabit switch, hub or router of course:) works fine for digitizing on another computer's drive.
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