? concerns capturing HDV

I am logging and capturing HDV footage was shot in 1080i 60. I went to audio/video settings and selected HDV. The capturing process works fine however when I look at the frame size in the browser it reads 720x420. Shouldn't it read 1080 x ?. Capturing off of a Sony HDV deck.

IT MORE THAN POSSIBLE that you recorded the material in SD as opposed to HDV check your settings on the camera itself. If that's not the case then my suggestion would be to make sure the record inhibit is pushed on your tape this way you can't lose your original material, then go horse play around with the settings on FCP get familiar with them just do it on a new project that you don't mind trashing, also once you start to learn via trail and error you may find it more useful to look in the FCP Help menu it's very useful and alot quicker than Trail and error.
Nothing wrong with experiment as long as your not doing it on the clients time or screwing up your work.

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