Capturing HD footage, directly to harddrive through FCP

[The Media Monster]

I am a noob, so I'm sorry to ask such basic questions, and I'm sure this one's been discussed many times, but I was unable to find the answer after poking around the site for a bit, so at worst maybe this could be viewed as a "refresher" or something like that:

I have an HVX 200 AP. I run the newest version of FCP.

I am in my studio and want to shoot some test footage in 1080 i 24 p mode directly from my firewire, through FCP and onto my harddrive.

What do my settings need to be on my camera and in FCP to make this happen?

I have googled this question, I have looked on this site, I have experimented a few times on my own with different settings on both FCP and the HVX, but I cannot get FCP or my camera to 'recognize' each other; I just don't want you to think I'm trying to get easy answers without at least giving it a shot on doing it myself.

Thanks for the help:

The MM:Drogar-Smoke(DBG):

[David Saraceno]

The settings have to be identical.

Anything pNative does not stream out FW so don't use that.

Than in log and transfer, set to noncontrollable device.

[DJJD566]

In your camera, using the menues (should be in "other functions"), turn pc output mode to the "1394 stream" (not "host" or "USB"). Then plug the camera into your mac. On the camera, push the button that puts the camera into "mcr" or "vcr", then once it is in that mode, press and hold that button until the screen flases "1394 connect". Then your mac should recognize it as a flash drive if you are using p2.

Then open FCP and in terms of project format, choose "DVCPro"- followed by the settings you recorded with- ex "DVCPRO1080/24". Then just go to "log and capture" and the files should pop up.

[David Saraceno]

The OP is asking about a live capture out firewire to FCP, not a log and transfer of previously captured footage via p2.

[DJJD566]

Should have seen that...

Good call David

[MrBill]

Just got done doing a job this way, also ran the P2 cards as backup. Had a couple of Computer crashes (Mac Book Pro), other than that it worked fine.