• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  can’t see camcorder

  Posted by David Van hooser on February 5, 2007 at 2:56 pm

  I’ve encountered this problem before and can’t remember the solution… I have an external hard drive connected to my G5, editing on FCP HD. When I connect a camcorder via firewire, then try to log and capture, the system stays on the search mode, telling me it can’t find the camcorder. When I disconnect the hard drive, then the camcorder is immediately found. Someone once told me the G5 needed another video card (or something like that) so that it could detect both the hard drive and camcorder. Does this make sense? I would appreciate an explanation so I’ll know exactly what I need to go get to avoid this problem. Thanks.

  David
  da*************@*ac.com

  Debe replied 19 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Bouncing Account needs new email address

  February 5, 2007 at 4:13 pm

  Try ‘daisy-chaining’ the Camcorder through the HD.
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  Debe

  February 5, 2007 at 4:15 pm

  You need another firewire bus for you Mac. That is a card you’d buy and install.

  Places like wiebetech.com sell them, but there are many other vendors.

  Unless you are heaviliy invested in firewire drives, you might want to consider using external SATA drives instead. Instead of adding a FW card, you’d be adding a SATA card. Under most conditions, SATA is more reliable than FW.

  This leaves your existing fw bus on your Mac for the camcorder.

  debe

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