Capturing audio and video directly to disk: which Mac app(s) can do it ?

[Kevin Callahan]

I know I'm not the only one who wants to do what I could do before  
QTPro was updated to 7.2:  capture video and audio directly to disk  
using a firewire camcorder and a firewire audio interface.

QT 7.2 broke the ability to set my video source to my DV camcorder my  
audio source to my MOTU 896HD.

Because iMovie 6 didn't allow me to define separate sources, I  
resorted to using QTPro 7.1

Now QTPro 7.2 doesn't even see my MOTU firewire interface as a valid  
audio source (and I hear others are finding the same problem with  
various audio interfaces).

As with iMovie 6, iMovie '08 doesn't let you define your audio source  
separate from your video source.  I RADAR'd the problem with iMovie  
6, and now I've RADAR'd the problem with iMovie '08.

Today, I had a Canon HV20 here in the studio and we spent a couple of  
hours experimenting.   The only solution was to run audio from my  
MOTU into the Canon, have the Canon resample the audio, and capture  
directly into iMovie '08.
The audio quality is completely unacceptable, however.   It's a show  
stopper.

I've RADAR'd bugs on both QTPro 7.2 breaking and on iMovie '08.   
Ideally, iMovie '08 would let us capture directly into the app.  If  
QTPro 7.1 could do it, why not QTPro 7.2, and better, why not iMovie  
'08?

At this juncture, I'm at a loss as to how to proceed.

What are people doing to capture high quality video and audio on a  
Mac ?  what apps?  what hardware?


Thanks,
Kevin


http://www.kevincallahan.org/
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