Help Capturing HDV!!!

[assneck]

OK, I'm an idiot, clearly this is user error - but I can't get HDV into my computer. After months of failing I may have discovered why, when I plug the firwire cable in to the computer, I camera switched to DV. The HDV option (which I have selected on the menu) switches to "playback STD".

If I plug the firewire cable into the camera 1st, everything is fine, but then as sson as I plug the other end into the computer, it switches to STD?

Help!!!!

thanks, Assneck

[Huy Vu]

If the camera switches to DV then the footage captured on tape is DV. I think you should test it by taking the tape and put it into another DV camera. If that camera reads it, then it's DV and not HDV.

[assneck]

Thanks, but nope, it's HDV foorage for sure (pressed disp while playing), plus it even happens with no tape in the camera.

[vsansal]

Are you using windows? If you are, go to device manager and make sure it is listed under sound,video and game controllers as AV/C tape device

[danielzana]

im not sure where the option is, but when you go to playback mode you can adjust how the signal is output under the play/output menu 2 option. the options are hdv/dv or dv lock. perhaps u might have it on dv lock which outputs the footage to dv regardless of the format. just a thought.

-daniel