Capturing 1920/60i in CS3

Can it be done? I have 1920x1080 footage coming from a Canon HV10. CS3 doesn't seem to give me the option of capturing at 1920. Plus, it doesn't seem to want to show the footage during capture, so I don't know there's a timecode failure until the tape is done (then I find out that it stopped capturing 40 minutes ago!).
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me,
Chad
HP Pavillion dv 9000 -- AMD Turion x64 Dual Core -- 2 GB RAM -- Vista 64bit

Premiere does not display HD video while using Firewire to transfer
Use http://strony.aster.pl/paviko/hdvsplit.htm instead

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I've got an ongoing capture error in premiere pro cs3 (on Mac OSX).
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Try a different capture utility. VideoHelp.com will list plenty of free alternatives. If they stumble as well, there ie likely something wrong with the tape at that spot.

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Best way I know of to make 60i look like 24P is Nattress film effects.
Don't recapture, just run Nattress on the shots you use. Best $99 bucks you'll spend...
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The Matrox Xtrem Pro has analog ports, which will not allow injesting with CS 3, they work with 1.5 This was a combined package with Premier Pro, and the Xtrem Pro 100 card. I dont see why I must get further hardware, when it worked with your earlier version of the edit software.
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I have now picked up the increasing rare JVC Mini-DV/ SVHS combo which has firewire. So its possible injest anlooge material using that.
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Capture in Premier Pro CS3...please help

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Premiere CS3 doesn't support Camcorder capturing and MPEG-2 on purpose? [very frustrated. Please Hel

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HVX-200 and P2 rant

It's really becoming a pain for me to work with Premiere and After Effects CS4 so I gotta vent a little.
I'm doing Post FX and Color Correction in After Effects. I edited the movie in Premiere CS4 (started a bit in CS3 but movied over).
Ok I shoot 24pa (with is basically 24 progressive frames captured though 60i). In CS 2,3 Premiere and After Effects both removed the extra frames automatically.
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First and foremost, watch this tutorial:
P2 Workflow Tutorial
1. They stay the same size. All that happens is that a quicktime wrapper is wrapped around them, and audio and video are combined. No loss is quality occurs.
2. A SATA RAID will do you fine, but honestly I have been editing this and Varicam footage using 2 G-Raid firewire 800 drives. You need at least a firewire 800 drive, but I'd recommend a SATA Raid. Sonnet, Weibetech, Firmtek and Burly boxes...all work well.
3. Copy the P2 cards to field drives. Bring them in and transfer to firewire drives. These drives are your TAPE MASTERS. Do not erase these, do not lose these. Store these as your would field masters. I myself use internal SATA drives in a single firewire case that I swap out the drives. Cheaper than multiple enclosed drives. From there you import to your Media drives...your SATA Raid.
4. No need to offline. DVCPRO HD really doesn't take up that much space...roughly twice what DV takes. Oh...you are going 1080 24p. That takes 42.12 GB/hour DV takes about 13GB/hour.
5. Editing at full resolution is fine and easy. But you will not be able to get away with firewire 400 drives. As I said, FW800 or greater. 1080i might require more, thus the need for the SATA Raid.
I believe that you need at least a Dua 1Ghz machine for DVCPRO HD, and you have that...and you have enough RAM...so you are good. The only choking point you will have is render times. Especially when compressing for DVD. 90 min show took me 14 hours...oof.
And read my Blog about working with the HVX...click on Underdog to get there.
Shane

Best Preset to in CS5 for AVCHD

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The preset for either 1080P or 1080i are both set for a pixel ratio of square or 1, as opposed to retangular or .9, as with NTSC DV. It would appear that with a pixel aspect ratio of square when viewing on a 16:9 widescreen format monitor, this would produce an incorrect picture.
Could I get some clarication/confirmation regarding the two questions above? This would be the first time I have used this format of HD video and I want to be certain that what I produce is both true to standard and fully optimized with the native video that I for the demo real.
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Again, much thanks for your support and time to offer any additional input.

HD Strobe Of Death

Hey Yeah!
I am having the same problem I have been reading about on here allot, with my HD footage. The Dreaded Strobe! Everything I have read I have tried but nothing seems to work. I will Give you all the info On my Capture, and Camera and system:
Shot 1080i 24p, On A Sony HVR-V1U
Captured using 1080i60
Vid rat in the sequence is 29.97
Editing on FCPS2
Some of the footage in the time line looks ok some looks very strobed/jerky,
Any Speed changes definitely look bad, as do most clips with transitions on them. I Cannot seem to figure this out. It looks even worse when I send it to DVD through compressor I have tried top, and bottom field dominance to only different bad results.
I am Seriously getting baffled and have wasted way to much time researching the boards trying to figure this out. Anyone?

thelawnwrangler wrote:
Shot 1080i 24p, On A Sony HVR-V1U
Captured using 1080i60
Vid rat in the sequence is 29.97
Editing on FCPS2
You have a mismatch in your settings that's causing your issue.
You say that you shot at 24p, captured at 60i. It appears that you need to remove the pulldown and edit in a 24p sequence. I wish I could tell you how to do that but I don't shoot that way so I have no need to do that. But maybe now you can be directed in your search.
K

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