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Re: Sony, a love/hate relationship

Posted By: Lord Crosis (66.230.109.32)
Date: Wednesday, 13 February 2008, at 1:57 p.m.

In Response To: Sony, a love/hate relationship (J242)

: enough HDV tapes to choke a donkey.

So, 1 then?

: Apparently Sony has
: everything it records on the unit set to m2t format (along with their
: stupid .modd files for every clip which to add insult to injury are all
: "242 bytes" lol) which is incompatible with EVERY VIDEO EDITOR
: known to man... FCP 6? Nope... Avid? Notta... Premiere? Nopers... Hell,
: maybe Sony's own Vegas would run it? 0 for 4...

On the Apple Support Forums someone said that you could get it to work with iMovie in the following steps:

Details are on page 58 upper left corner of your HC7 manual: In the HC7 settings make sure you have i.Link -> DV conversion turned off if iMovie is set to HD. (Conversely, make sure the DV conversion is on if iMovie is working in DV. That is, just make sure your streams are matching formats.)
1. Must have iMovie 6 OPEN
2. Plus the camera must be ON
3. Plus camera must be in VCR mode.
4. Then Plug In The FireWire
5. In iMovie preferences AND the HC7 make sure the settings are coordinated with the settings listed above. Nothing will work if they are not.
6. Make sure your iMovie MODE is switched to the camera position. That's the little slider that has a camera icon on the left and a pair of scissors icon on the right. Without that toggle switched to the left next to the camera icon communication is impossible (as the Japanese like to say).
7. In that mode you will see a blue screen with the words "Camera Attached" in white in the middle of it. Your time code will appear in the upper right corner. (If not you will see the words "No Camera Attached" with a button for "Connection Help" that will launch Apple's own help file including links to other pages that can help as well.)
7. Press play in iMovie and you will see the stream playing from the camera.
8. Press the "Import" button and it will begin to copy the stream to your Movie Folder.

Perhaps these steps could be adapted to FCP? I highly doubt the camera works fine with iMovie, but not FCP, but I suppose anything is possible.

: Sony, what a fucking joke. The worst part is that I really love the camera
: itself! When oh when is Sony going to pull it's head out of it's ass and quit fucking
: up their otherwise good products?

Yeah, I fought this when I got my MiniDisc recorder. It's like one of their engineers said "Let's come up with the absolutely perfectly ideal device for people to record live performances with. Make sure that it has all the desirable attributes: Super portable, extremely well built, super long battery life, amazing sound quality, attractive design etc. K, now lets make it so that everything people record is DRMed so that they can never get their recordings off of the disc. "

The other engineer turned and responded, "Ya know John, I could suck your dick right now. That's fucking brilliant."

-=(Lord Crosis)=-

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