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Capture problems from Canon MVX40i
Am helping a friend…he is on FCP vers 5.0.4, Mac G4 powerbook vers 10.4.7, he has extrenal drive Lacie 500 gig, using firewire 400 cable from Canon mvx40i to drive. Problem is… we started capturing, got a few minutes, now it won’t work at all. Have tried all the obvious setup checks, done shutdowns etc Has anyone had a problem with this camera? (we will get a different model camera tomorrow to try) BUT any tips appreciated.
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Are you sure that he doesn’t have another external hard drive connected in the same time?
It seems to be that you have 2 different external hard drives (probably LaCie) connected
at the same time or daisy chained.
If they were daisy chained, connect each hard drive into different firewire port, preferably
one (Lacie) to FW 800, other into FW 400 and then your FCP will recognise your Canon (I’ve got 2 BTW).If you really got only one Lacie, try different ports. Ideal solution would be to connect Lacie
to FirWire 800 port and Canon to FireWire 400 port, but I’m not sure that your PowerBook
has one. Some PowerBooks G4 have FW 800.Let me know if this helps.
Mick
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I have a Canon gl2 and my lacie is having a hard time capturing like yours did. do you have any advice as to what went wrong. my lacie seems to lock up the log and capture window. I also can not see ant preview in the colr bar area. I really need help getting this to work with my camera and lacie 500 gb external. I am nearly out of space on my internal.
Thanks
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Hi Scott and Mick
Sorry for my late reply.. have been editing somewhere else and not spoken to my friend overnight but Thanks Mick for the tips..he was using that combination of cables. So not the cables. He got another camera in (iam trying to find out what model) plugged it straight in and no probs capturing. So seems in our case it is the Canon MVX40i
Will report back to check if this other camera has continued to work and details of it
many thanks
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Hi Edit Girl,
Glad that you solved your problem, partially,
but I still believe that you van get Canon to work as well with importing.Never said that cables are wrong. I’ve read your original post again:
Don’t plug the Canon into drive (external drive?).
Plug your Lacie into your Mac using FW 800 ports/cables.
Plug your Canon to your Mac’s FW 400 port
and try agin.That should work.
Mick
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Hi Mick
thanks again for the tips. I checked and he was running the cables like this from the start. We just tried all combos.
He managed to borrow a mates camera a Sony DSR PD150P and all footage is now in system no probs.
He is going to email/contact Canon to follow up as he only bought the camera a few months ago.
So will keep posted if we get some results
E.G.
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I have a Canon MVX350i and I have a similar problem. the camera is not recognized. I live in Sweden and this is a PAL CANON MVX350i. Seems like a great camera, BUT I cannot get it to be recognized in the latest iMovie or Final Cut Pro 4.5 or 5.0. Latest update done… I have also installed the software that came with the camera for OSX, but just seems to be for the digital photo part of things.
I have not found it on any compatibility lists, BUT according to several forums I read in Sweden, all Canon cameras should work, and it was even recommended on the MacUser UK site and reviewed! I am at wit’s end about what to do…
have done all the things necessary like changing cables — 5 times! Unplugging all other Firewire. Trying other video cameras, THEY WORK! Have tried 3 other macs, and NONE of them work with my camera…
anybody know what it could be…?
thanks
BERT -
Hi Bert
(funny my nickname is Bertie!) ANYYYYway iam sorry we, my director and I still haven’t been able to solve our original problem that started this thread. We ended up borrowing a Sony camera to get our footage in. I presume you checked out the previous suggestions from other users in this thread.
If we solve the issue will definitley post a reply.Good luck too!
regards Edit girl
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