Capture HD via Spare Camera

[jakecarpenter]

I shot HD video on a XHA1 but want to capture it on my old sd sony handycam to avoid putting the wear on the XHA1. I put the hd tape into the handycam and the camera isn't seeing any video or timecode on the tape (all I see is the blue background with battery/timecode indicators. The camera is able to view a tape that was shot on it in sd but not the canon tape shot in hd on the xha1.

Is there a setting I need to change on the handycam in order to get it to read the hd tape? Is this possible? What kind of spare camera/deck is necessary in order to view an hd tape. I don't want to view it in hd on the spare camera, I am just using it as a capture deck in to final cut.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

[Huy Vu]

Tapes shot in HDV mode must be read on an HDV camera. Tapes shot using the Canon 24F or 30F mode must be read on a Canon HDV camera. Canon do not make any decks that will read these materials, but the Canon HV10, HV20 and upcoming HV30 handycams will read these tapes.

[bansheeproductions]

I shoot with an FX1 and capture with an HV20