stop motion

jbird65 · Post by **jbird65** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:18 am

do you have to connect your video camera to the firewire port for the stop motion in video pro 4 to recognize it?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:31 am

Welcome to the forums!

I suspect your question in itself begs the question of whether you have a mini DV standard definition or high definition HDV camera, both of which essentially must use Firewire to achieve anything worthwhile. If the camera has both Firewire and mini USB, then the latter is only ever used for transferring still photos or at best web-type video of poor quality.

jbird65 · Post by **jbird65** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:41 am

hi, its a panasonic hdc-sd60, full hd, avchd..normally i use the usb to upload video for other projects..it also has hdmi out

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:03 am

Sorry -- I am now a little confused. Since your camcorder does not have a Firewire port, what is the point of your question?

jbird65 · Post by **jbird65** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:12 am

no, i dont have firewire..and the stop motion wont recognize my camera through a usb port, so how do i get it to recognize my camera? does it have to be through firewire port to work?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:28 am

I have just tried it out using my web camera which is connected to the computer via USB 2.0. And Stop Motion works fine.

Does Windows see your camera as an external drive? And in VS, when you right click in the timeline and choose Import Digital Media, can you navigate to your camera's drive? If you can, then I am not sure why VS cannot see it for the purposes of Stop Motion...

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:28 am

No I don't think it has to be a Firewire port. In one of the tutorials for VS X4, he uses a webcam, and I think they use USB.

jbird65 · Post by **jbird65** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:13 am

windows does see my camera as an external drive..L...it says L:\Private\Avchd\bdmv\stream\.001.mts...i dont see mts as a supported video file..changed it to avi..still no luck...going crosseyed...thanks..later

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:44 am

.mts is an AVCHD file and is definitely supported by VS. When transferred to the computer using the Panasonic software it will use the .m2ts extension. But VS can open either.

teknisyan · Post by **teknisyan** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:26 am

the fact that it's a HD base camera, that is why Windows detects is an external drive and not as a capturing device. You want to contact Panasonic and ask them how to setup your camera and avoid Windows from detecting it as a external drive.

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