Will not Capture

[billget]

I'm using MSP8 to capture from my Canon XHA1 but it will capture in SD only. If HDV is chosen a message is received "Unable to open the specified device." Is Canon not supported?

Thank you
Billget

[troppo]

Have you changed the settings on your camera to output HDV?
When you change the settings, make sure you disconnect the camera first. When you reconnect xp should pop up a little box saying HDV device connected.

[tyamada]

According to the MSP 8 compatibility chart your camera isn't supported.
Go to this link:
http://www.ulead.com/msp/features.htm
Select Compatibility.

Your camera was released after the last MSP 8 service pack and there doesn't seem to be another service pack on the horizon. If there is another service pack it should support some of the newer High Definition cameras.

[billget]

Because Msp8 does not support capture from the Canon XHA1, is there any way to capture HDV and work with in in MSP8?

[cgould]

Because Msp8 does not support capture from the Canon XHA1, is there any way to capture HDV and work with in in MSP8?

Try other capture tools, such as free HDVSplit; the .77beta version works just fine for my Canon HV10 (actually MSPro8 does too, so the compatibility list is kind of bogus.)
Note that while HDVSplit works great for capturing scene-split separate files, it captures as M2T (transport stream) files, which MSpro8 has to individually convert to program stream- very slowly/poorly, if you have 100s of scene clip files. Maybe better to turn off the scene split and just capture one big 13g M2T file, and let mspro convert it to MPG2.
MSpro won't scene-split HDV by datestamp anyway, only by image content.

However, the last patched VideoStudio11+ DOES work with M2T files (though like mspro8 it captures converted mpg2 w/o scene splits), so my current workflow is to capture scene files w/ HDVsplit, import them all into VS11+, very rough edit into "titles" eg single track/file I desire, and render out an HDV "program stream" MPG2 file from the timeline-
then I import that MPG2 into MSPro8, and voila! thanks to the UPD file VS11+ renders, the scene splits ARE detected in mspro8!

Kind of a pain to get HDV scene detection in mspro8, and wasted disk space from 2nd MPG2 file, but it works.

[billget]

Thanks for all the information. I'll give it a try.