Capturing HD footage with the Sony J-H3

I'm trying to capture 1080i/59.94 footage with a Sony J-H3 through firewire. I edited the capture preset for "DVCPRO HD - 1080i60 48 kHz" to have 59.94 FPS, 100% quality, and three different compression settings: none, uncompressed 10-Bit 4:2:2, and DVCPRO HD 1080i60. All of them were soft & pixellated. The DVCPRO HD 1080i60 setting was probably the worst, but the other two weren't much better. What kind of capture settings do I need to get nice crisp HD movs?

Not as HD, no. DVCPRO HD is a Panasonic format, and only the DVCPRO HD decks output that format via firewire. Sony's firewire HD format is HDV, but that is COMPLETELY different than HDCAM. No...if you look at the back of the deck, you will note that in that area of connections, it specifically states "DV."
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