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Calling Walter…
Hey Walter,
I was looking up some stuff about the AJ-HD1200A and found a post you wrote back in January where you mentioned that you had the 1200A running to your machine through firewire. We’ve had the deck for a while but have been using it via RS422/SDI. Recently we’ve rented a second deck which we were planning to use through firewire (this deck is actually in a different location, so we can test them both side by side). The deck we currently own work absolutely fine through firewire. We’ve only tested it on my Macbook Pro, but assume it will work on our G5s too (although… assumption is always the first mistake…). The rented deck in our other location does not work via firwire. After troubleshooting for a LONG time, the only thing that’s we can determine to be different between our system setups is that the system using the rented deck (where FireWire is not working) is the only one that has been updated to FCP 5.1.4 – all of our other systems are on FCP 5.1.2.
I was wondering if you’d updated to 5.1.4, and if so if you have experienced problems communicating with the 1200A since upgrading? Thanks in advance for the help.
-Ben
PS – Strangely enough, I’m also an editor for some food network stuff. I helped assemble their most recent all star cookie special, in which we used a Good Eats segment with Alton and Santa. I’m not sure if you edited that show, but if you did, nice job – that segment was a lot of fun! Small world, huh? All the best. -B
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[Ben Insler] “I was wondering if you’d updated to 5.1.4, and if so if you have experienced problems communicating with the 1200A since upgrading? Thanks in advance for the help.”
Not running 5.1.4, we’re still on 5.1.2 and we’ve sold the 1200A and replaced it with the 1400. On that G5, does anything else work in that Firewire port? I’m only asking to make sure they did not connect the 1200A to the Firewire when it was powered up. That will fry the Firewire port on the G5 instantly.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Thanks Walter. I had the same worry about frying the port. We tested running a firewire HDD through that port and it works fine.
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[Ben Insler] “Thanks Walter. I had the same worry about frying the port. We tested running a firewire HDD through that port and it works fine.”
Then I honestly don’t know. We used to run the 1200A through the G5 Dual 2.0 and then the G5 Quad 2.5 before moving it to the Mac Pro Quad 3.0 and it worked perfectly fine on all of those.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Yeah, it doesn’t make much sense. We’re stuck too.
Thanks for the help,
Ben
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[Ben Insler] “Yeah, it doesn’t make much sense. We’re stuck too. “
ben
does the deck work on another computer? it may be the FW port on the deck
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In fact are you not more likely to fry the firewire port on the tape deck as opposed to the G5? Hence the proliferation of people offering to fix DSR-11s with this problem, on the web.
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[Don Walker] “In fact are you not more likely to fry the firewire port on the tape deck as opposed to the G5?”
Not in my experience. I know of one shop locally that fried four G5’s in succession with a powered up 1200A.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[walter biscardi] “I know of one shop locally that fried four G5’s in succession with a powered up 1200A.”
Wow, i love those kind of days.
Ben, asking the obvious here, but are you sure the deck is in 1394 mode?
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[JeremyG] “Ben, asking the obvious here, but are you sure the deck is in 1394 mode?”
1394 is only for Video Input, has nothing to do with Machine Control or Video output, those are hot at all times. But a good thought.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Hi Ben Stuart Here if you are still having issues with the deck i have a few ideas you might try give me a call 561-213-5209
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