DV import to Sonoma still works

FYI: DV import still seems to work with macOS 14.2.1 Sonoma.


I did a quick test by connecting Sony TRV320E D8 camcorder to 4-9 pin FW cable to Apple's FW-TB adapter to Apple's TB2-TB3 adapter to Intel Mac mini 2018 USB-C port, macOS 14.2.1.


System Information > FireWire and Thunderbolt/USB4 (Bus 1) show the camcorder and the Firewire adapter.


Initially QuickTime Player or Final Cut Pro 10.7 did not show the camcorder but after this they do:


If you can't use your camera or video output device after updating to macOS Sonoma 14.1 - Apple Support


Final Cut Pro 10.7 imports 720x576 as 25 fps bottom field first interlaced, overall 30.5 Mb/s, timecode .mov (DV, 16 bit 48.0 kHz 1536 kb/s PCM Little / Signed) from that PAL camcorder (4:3). My old .dv files archived from iMovie 1.0.2-6.0.3 are essentially the same except .dv, overall 28.8 Mb/s, no timecode and PCM Big / Signed.


So I'd recommend FCP import for the quality I am used to, although that must be deinterlaced for computer playback unless longer shutterspeed was used making the footage essentially progressive.


On the other hand, QuickTime Player.app "Maximum" setting imports 702x576 25 fps, overall 40.3 Mb/s, timecode .mov, ProRes 422, 16 bit 48.0 kHz 1536 kb/s PCM Big / Signed, and "High" setting imports 585x480, overall 4351 kb/s, timecode .mov, AVC, 48.0 kHz 320 kb/s AAC, both as progressive.


A strange thing about those new Sonoma "legacy settings" was that enabling them made importing possible. But System Settings > Privacy & Security > Camera did not report the alert: "If legacy video support has been restored, you get a warning that the camera privacy indicator won't appear in the menu bar when a camera or video output device with an unsupported plugin is in use." And even after I changed back to the default settings, FCP and QuickTime Player still could import DV.

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Posted on Jan 5, 2024 10:46 PM

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Jan 26, 2024 12:46 AM in response to Matti Haveri

My son has MacBook Pro 16-inch 2021 M1 Pro and he wanted to get vintage-looking footage for a project so I gave him that old Sony TRV320E D8 camcorder (sadly my old VHS camcorder mangled tape and was trashed).


FCP 10.7 could readily import DV via those clumsy adapters. I wondered why he did not have to apply that "Restore legacy video device support". But it turned out that (despite me nagging him to update Sonoma for weeks) he still had Sonoma 14.0 which might explain this. So I now advised him NOT to update Sonoma or anything before finishing that project.

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