One man's journey to get his HV20 footage into Premiere

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c.g._eads

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Have an HV20 and Premiere 2.0. All of my Premieres have a long-standing tradition of not recognizing the cameras atttached to the computer (thank you Adobe!). This leaves me with no option to capture footage onto my computer.

So my question is, how do I capture my HV20 footage onto my computer? Is there a free standalone app that captures HD footage? What is it and where can I find it?

The only other option I can think of is getting the computer to officially recognize my camera. Usually I can plug a camera into my computer and even if I don't officially "install" it, the computer can still see and use it. But no drivers came with my HV20 and my computer has no idea what it is. Any advice on how to get the computer to recognize it?

Oh, and you know how they have those presets to choose from when you open a new project in Premiere? I heard there's a canon HV20 preset floating around somewhere on the internet. Anyone know where I can find it?
 
Use HDVsplit to capture. Edit using the HDV 60i presets, because that's what your footage is. If you remove the pulldown using After Effects or some other program, then you can edit using the 24p preset for the XLH1, which is available on the Adbe site. If your computer never recognizes any of your cameras, you need a new computer.:thumbsup:

http://strony.aster.pl/paviko/hdvsplit.htm
 
HDVsplit doesn't seem to recognize my camera. When I looked at the read me, it said it only supported 3 of the sony cameras. That may be why? Have you personally captured from the HV20 with HDVsplit?
 
c.g._eads said:
Have you personally captured from the HV20 with HDVsplit?
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All the time, it works with my A1 as well. You need to check your capture card or firewire port, if no camera is ever detected by your computer, there is an issue that needs resolving.
-Kevin
 
Okay, so HDVsplit is finally working and it recognizes my HV20 and all is well when..... everything comes crashing down (of course). Is it possible that I can run into a problem *every* single step of the way in this process? I mean is there even one step where it can just be... boom, it works?

Anyway, the newet problem is that after HDVsplit captures the footage, I import it into premiere and... well, the file is "there". But it has that generic "media pending" screen instead of the actual video. Every single file I import that was captured using HDVsplit is like that. Any ideas why?

Something I found a little odd. Inside the folder I captured to (windows folder - not premiere folder), I have the icons in thumbnail view, where I can usually see a thumbnail of the video I just captured. But instead of a video icon, I see the generic windows icon that they put when they don't know what the file is. I chalked it up to the fact that I've never used m2t files before and figured my windows didn't know what they were yet. But now I'm starting to think something went wrong in the capturing process and the files are corrupt (which would explain the "media pending" tag).

Any ideas on what went wrong?
 
Update: The files work OUTSIDE of Premiere. I got that program, "VCL" or whatever it's called that allows you to look at HD footage on your computer. IT recognizes the M2T files and plays them. So why do you think Premiere still is having problems with media files, saying in about five diffenrent languages in a badly photoshopped picture, "media pending". I noticed in the bin that the names of the imported files are in *italics*. I don't know if that means anything. But if someone can PLEASE help me get my files into premiere as REAL VIDEO FILES I would be very grateful.

thanks,
chris
 
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