Why is Captured Footage Dark?

I'm transferring an old home-movie DVD I had created via a Canopus ADVC110 video adapter; as suc, the image quality is noticably darker than what's on the DVD. Conversely, any footage captured from my DV camera is fine.
Is there an explanation for this and what might the fix be?

Are you certain that you're viewing the captured footage on a calibrated monitor (preferably an external TV monitor)?
-DH

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I have my Canon XH A1 connected to my Mac OS X computer. I am using Final Cut Pro to download the footage onto my Mac. The capture settings are set to HDV capture but it wont download properly.
The computer downloads the first 20 seconds of footage then stops. The tape in the camera continues to roll to the end and then gives me the 'End of tape' window- but nothing has been downloading past the initial 20 seconds.
Usually when HD footage is downloaded Final Cut creates many little clips. (Unlike normal DV which creates one big file). For some reason this isn't happening after the first 20 seconds.
Then, even though I have already created a named folder for the footage to be saved into, the computer asks me to save it as an untitled project somewhere else.
What is going on?
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Sequence Present: Apple ProRes 422 1440x1080 50i 48 kHz
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Device Control Present: HDV FireWire Basic
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Edit to Tape/PTV Output Audio: Default
Help!
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Do you have an external firewire drive connected? Canon equipment is unreliable capturing via firewire to a firewire drive, or even when capturing to a non-firewire drive when there are other devices present on the firewire bus.

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Hi All -
I'm a bit new to Final Cut Express but ran across the following problem:
When I try to capture footage from my Canon XH A1 HD video camera, FCE does not recognize that there's any connection or that the camera is plugged into my MacBook Pro via the firewire cable. When I plug in my Sony VX2100 it does recognize this camera and I'm able to capture footage when I use that camera, but no luck with the Canon.
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Are you using the correct Easy Setup?
Normally it should be HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i50 (or i60 if you are using NTSC).
I believe your Canon is an HDV camera whilst your Sony shoots DV.
They both need different Easy Setups. iMovie deals with this automatically.

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So I used quicktime to export a copy that I was then able to import into FCPro and worked perfectly. But WHY wasn't the captured footage available ? I will not re-render all my raw footage every time I capture something. That's just crazy talk!

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The academic versions are very, very cheap. I wish that I could qualify for these. Sometimes I think of taking classes in an approved college, just to get these, but then I make $ with them (not forbidden, but certainly outside of the spirit), so I do not feel right doing so. Even when I did take classes, I only used my "discount" for books - never the software.
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Most cellphone camera has little opening so in order to take full advantage of it you need to use it mainly in outdoor environment where the light is abundant. The worst quality you will get is by taking pictures indoors with little or lack of light(it depends on the light coming into the camera lense instead the whole ambient light). If you want to compare try taking an outdoor shot with plenty of light.
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G'Day Mate
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