Z1 in camera down conversion to SD?

PeterWright wrote on 3/10/2005, 8:23 PM
I have managed to capture HDV fine with the Cineform app, but have not been able to capture in Vegas using the camera to down convert to SD. I need to do this in a couple of weeks for a same day turnaround job.

I'm assuming I have something set wrong on the camera - I currently have:
VCR HDV/DV set to AUTO
HDV>DV CONV set to ON

Is this ok and are there other settings to check?

Vegas capture starts and stops immediately saying no video captured.

I'd appreciate hearing from someone who's done this successfully.

Comments

Grazie wrote on 3/10/2005, 9:18 PM
Peter I know very little about HD . . .well a bit . . but . . is this the old VidCap setting for minimum clip length "trick"? I got that VidCap should ignore anything less than 1 second? Don't know, but maybe it's worth a try . .. . if it doesn't work sorry for wasting your time ..

Grazie


PeterWright wrote on 3/10/2005, 10:19 PM
Thanks for the thought Grazie - it wasn't that, but whilst I was checking settings I got a strange message about Delayed write failed so I changed destination drive and it started working!

I was trying to capture to a firewire drive, which worked fine with Cineform, but went temporarily AWOL for some reason ...

Anyway, now I've finally managed it, I can confirm what DSE reported - camera downconversion looks OK, but not as good as Vegas downconversion.
Shame - think I'll still have to use it in a couple of weeks - shooting a charity golf day and showing highlights in the evening - no time for conversion to intermediate avi.
Grazie wrote on 3/10/2005, 10:58 PM
Excellent! You got it to work. YEah .. drive destinations are also forgotten - me too! Checking VidCap settings is often worth a review when VidCap comes unstuck . . .. Grazie
farss wrote on 3/11/2005, 12:36 AM
Do you need this footage in HiDef?
If not why not shoot in DV25 and save the downconversion issue all together.
Not quite as good as doing a downconvert in Vegas or going straight out to DVD but pretty good regardless.
Bob.
PeterWright wrote on 3/11/2005, 1:42 AM
Yes, I thought about that Bob, and may finish doing this for expedience.

Generally, though, I'm trying to record everything in HD just so I'll always have the option to put out later stuff at that quality.