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Final Cut Firewire troubles
I am running FCP4.5 on a G5. I recently moved my computer to a new room, and have a new external video monitor to work on. The monitor works fine when I feed it signals via a analog/DV converter box. However, for some reason, since this move, I cannot get firewire signals to come from the FCP timeline to any DV device. I have troubleshot this with a DV camera, and cannot get past a blue screen on that….just a simple connection from the back of the G5 (6 pin firewire port) to the camera.
I have checked AV settings and have video playback set to “apple firewire NTSC (720×480)”. This had been working for me in the past. I have a feeling that I might have changed something else, not aware that it would cause problems.
Additionally, I tried the front firewire port, and had no luck there. Ive tried swapping cables to make sure there wasnt a bad cable connection.
I also tried restarting the MAC and making sure that FCP could recognize a firewire connection on launch. I launched the application with no deck connected, and it asked me to connect a deck. I did, and tried again, and still, output from timeline to the DV camera. So I know FCP is seeing that there is a firewire connection, but it wont output the timeline video.If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it. This is wicked frustrating…(yes, from Boston).
Thanks,
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Make sure under “View/External Video” you have all frames selected. Good Luck, John
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Certainly just trash the prefs to get FCP back to initial settings and see if that cleans it up by itself.
Ensure that anytime you connect a Firewire device to a Mac, either the device or the Mac is turned off. The FW ports can be fried by connecting a powered device to a Mac. This is especially true of the Panasonic AJ-HD1200A deck. A friend told me of a shop that burned out 4 G5 FW ports in about 2 minutes by going Mac to Mac with a 1200A trying to get a picture, but the deck was turned on.
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Thanks John,
I knew it was something like that.
George
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