How to record directly to PC?

[cici]

Hi! I have the HVX for about 1 year now - some might know me from this or another forum....

Today I was triying for the very first time to record directly from HVX to PC without a P2 card in HD modus.

It didn't work and that's what might be the reason:

- I tried via P2-Viewer without really knowing what I do, just because some told me that it was possible to record onto P2-Viewer... I just didn't know what to select there, what to click onto...

- btw. I studied Barry's book and the HVX manual but both don't enter so much into detail (still a fantastic book, Barry )

- camera was always set on 1080i50 because I wanted to start with the format that will be easiest to support from either software...

- camera was set on 1394host (can I by chance format the HD like that without wanting?? - that's very scary...) but I also set it on 1394device and once even on USB...

- Firewire was always properly connected as WinXP told me...

- USB won't work I think but I tried it anyway...

- as NLE I tried Liquid 7.2 with "Live" mode where I selected "Liquid IEEE1394" as source (no other selection possible unless "no")

- I could see a picture in live-mode in Liquid but only in SD mode and even SD was not possible to record... and as soon as I switched to 1080i50, Liquid says "no device connected" and picture stays black...

- camera setting for 1394 control was on EXT and I tried also BOTH

- concerning the 1394 CMD SEL I tried both and kept pressing REC for all tries, without knowing wheter you really have to press REC or whether you would press REC either on Liquid or P2-Viewer to start recording...


If record via P2-Viewer is NOT possible (as some told me), it should work at least via live logging in Liquid 7.2 (1080i50 etc. from P2 is supported).

It must be the settings, as the PC recognizes the camera, but Liquid doesn't (not in HD... but as I said: I get the live picture in SD, so camera settings can't be that wrong either, but I can'r record SD nor get a connection in HD).

I simply want to try to record HD directly onto PC (no, I don't have DV Rack HD) and I wonder: HOW can I do this?

 

[ford]

Just yesterday I try with Avid Media Composer and ther's no problems to record directly onto PC via 1394

 

[Barry_Green]

You can't record live to P2 Viewer. You can through DV Rack/OnLocation, Avid, FCP, and EDIUS.

 

[cici]

You can through DV Rack/OnLocation, Avid, FCP, and EDIUS.

Well, Liquid IS Avid...

But probably you mean Avid XPress or Avid Liquid Broadcast or Avid Liquid Chrome, ...

Or do you want to say that it should theoretically work with Liquid Edition (7.2) ?

- Any Liquid user here?

On my screen, the logging tool looses almost ALL function buttons except Play and FF etc. that I can't use for record... even the EXIT button disappears and all remaining functions get grey... and the preview window is a huge 16:9 window in the middle (!!) of the screen, upper half. A friend of mine has LE 7.2 too and his window in the logging tool is DIFFERENT even if he does exactly the same: create new project with 1080i50 (the only available that makes sense) and open logging tool. He gets the exit button, the record button, anything he wants and he can record in HD.... BUT: from his SD-camera!!! (he has no HD camera and lives too far away that we could try it together...). So he has some kind of proof that it could work: he gets some 1080i50 footage from a live SD-view (of course with a huge black frame around the picture) and we do step for step together on phone but I get that strange screen even if Liquid recognizes the camera connection works and the 1394 settings are ok (otherwise I could not record in SD... via the EZ Capture Tool for SD-logging).