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Canon HV20 Not recognized
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:03 am
by glenn71x
I am having a little issue. When I connect my HV20 by firewire it is not recognized at all unless I go into the camcorder menu and Lock the output as DV. I can not upload HD content in this manner. It is scaled down to normal DV. Any explanation why this occurs?
Also, since I dont have a Blue Ray burner does it really matter whether I am uploading the HD or just normal DV? Obviously VideoStudio I guess will have to scale down the edited footage to be burnt to DVD when I am finished. Is there any quality difference between letting VideoStudio scale it down or just uploading it from the camera as regular DV?
Thanks ALL!
I am using the latest version of VideoStudio 12 by the way.
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:53 pm
by Ken Berry
I happen to have a HV20 too and have no problem capturing HDV from it using VS11.5+ and VS12 via Firewire (as well as downconverting to DV format). So I am not sure what might be wrong with your setup. Can we assume you have set the camera to output in HDV rather than do the down-conversion to DV in the camera itself?
That being said, because VS will not split HDV by scene during capture, I tend to use a small freeware program called HDVSplit to capture my HDV. Then I simply open the captured (and split) files in VS for editing.
As for downconversion for standard def DVDs, I think that capturing in HDV and editing in that format, then downconverting after editing is finished, will produce a slightly better quality DVD that downconverting from the start. It is not significantly better quality, but certainly noticeable to the human eye ... well, at least to mine!!
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:12 pm
by glenn71x
Hmmm
Maybe it is a Windows issue? When I set the camera to output in HDV the camera is not even recognized by windows. Another words when I plug it in I dont get any windows sounds indicating something was just plugged in. When I change the setting to down convert, then it finds the Canon DV camera no problem. There isn't any extra drivers I need to install first is there? Strange....
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:09 am
by kw
If you're in the capture part of the program it takes a minute or so for it to load up so it knows it's in HD mode. How long have you waited? The HV20 appears ok but I can't access a file to put the hdv video into for quite a while. Not sure I ever hear something when plugging into my computer (XP pro sp3). What's your operating system?