Someone asked me about this deck and HDV T/C.
Well I just ingest a HDV tape with two clips on it out of iMovie and on the Vegas 6 T/L it correctly reports T/C i.e. each clip starts at 0:00:00:00.
The deck sure feels good. What I'm not to keen on is the menu settings are now done on using controls on the front panel, not the remote. That sounds good except the controls on the deck are very tiny and hard to use. Also you really need a monitor hooked up to the thing. Unlike the DSR-11 where you didn't have to cope with the 1394 port handling two protocols and confusing your capture app it seems with the M15 you need to set the DV/HDV option before you try to capture/ PTT.
Trying to get iMovie to talk to the thing really had me confused at first, I didn't realise the iMovie project was HDV and I had the deck set to DVCAM and iMovie wouldn't dance with the deck at all.
I haven't tried another approach as yet, reading from the manual it seems you can leave the deck in auto mode and once you play a tape with HDV on it the 1394 port switches to HDV and will stay there. That might avoid the need to manually switch modes prior to capture.
One good things, the transport sounds more solid than the DSR-11, they used to take 2 or 3 goes to get the tape to load, the M15 loads first go, every time so far.
Bob.
edit: Forgot to mention. Inside the box is a Vegas 6 brochure!!!!
Way to go Sony Oz.
Well I just ingest a HDV tape with two clips on it out of iMovie and on the Vegas 6 T/L it correctly reports T/C i.e. each clip starts at 0:00:00:00.
The deck sure feels good. What I'm not to keen on is the menu settings are now done on using controls on the front panel, not the remote. That sounds good except the controls on the deck are very tiny and hard to use. Also you really need a monitor hooked up to the thing. Unlike the DSR-11 where you didn't have to cope with the 1394 port handling two protocols and confusing your capture app it seems with the M15 you need to set the DV/HDV option before you try to capture/ PTT.
Trying to get iMovie to talk to the thing really had me confused at first, I didn't realise the iMovie project was HDV and I had the deck set to DVCAM and iMovie wouldn't dance with the deck at all.
I haven't tried another approach as yet, reading from the manual it seems you can leave the deck in auto mode and once you play a tape with HDV on it the 1394 port switches to HDV and will stay there. That might avoid the need to manually switch modes prior to capture.
One good things, the transport sounds more solid than the DSR-11, they used to take 2 or 3 goes to get the tape to load, the M15 loads first go, every time so far.
Bob.
edit: Forgot to mention. Inside the box is a Vegas 6 brochure!!!!
Way to go Sony Oz.