Problems with .dv file captured using Capture Magic HD from Panasonic Cam

Question

I am trying to capture video from my Panasonic AG-HVX200P Camera using a program called Capture Magic HD, and I want to capture using the Raw DV or M2T Stream file type setting. There is another option of Write DV as Quicktime setting, but takes forever to write. When I get the .dv footage, it has like a rainbow color look to it. Does anybody think that it's the program Capture Magic HD having problems, or my mac?

Answer 1

My response in these discussions is always, "record to tape." You can solve any issue in post if you have the tape. If you don't have the tape, you're stuck with whatever you decided to try to capture. In many dozens of "capture live" threads we've entertained here over the years, I cna only recall a few where the user was actually satisfied they captured to the drives instead of to tape. All others ended in terrible, totally avoidable disasters.
But I digress.
You're saying this application digitizes and writes a separate .m2t file for each of the video source inputs?
I have never heard of .m2t so I looked these up. the most interesting is that is seems to be a variant of the regular ol' HDV disguised as MPEG2. You might try simply changing the file extension or the Open With setting.
from the cow:
Okay, believe it or not, the solution is as simple as this - rename the .m2t to .mpg Ya, that's it. Now try to load it and After Effects has no trouble recognizing it. I'm going to delve into Vegas to see if it can change the extension on files it captures to save a few keystrokes but at least I'm back to editing rather than agonizing over having to render my files to another format before taking them to AE. <</div>
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Re: Sony m2t file workaround
by Dave LaRonde on Jun 9, 2008 at 2:33:12 pm
[Craig Stewart] "the solution is as simple as this - rename the .m2t to .mpg "
That's not a really terrific solution if you intend to use the footage in AE. Read on:
Dave's Stock Answer #1:
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- Native HDV, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, m2t, H.261 or H.264 -- you need to convert it to a different codec.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
So..... just to make sure if I've got this straight:
You're proposing to change the suffix from .m2t to .mpg..... which is MPEG, yes? A temporally-compressed codec, yes?
It sounds to me like you'd just be swapping one problem for another.
Dave LaRonde
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<div class="jive-quote">After changing the .m2t extension on samples video files to .mpg, I was also able to view them on the RealOne Player version 2.<
It’s an Mpeg file for high definition Television. If you have a JVC HD camcorder, files downloaded to a pc are converted to this format.</div>
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<div class="jive-quote">File Description High-definition video recording format used by many HD camcorders; commonly referred to as "HDV;" uses MPEG-2 compression to store HD video data on DV or MiniDV tapes; supports resolutions of 720p and 1080i. <</div>