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Lost Deck Control After Reinstall
Greetings,
First off, I’m working on:
Mac G5 Dual 2 GHz, 4 GB DDR SDRAM, OSX 10.4.11, FCP 6.0.2, QT 7.3.
I recently did a complete system wipe and reinstall of OS, FCP, etc. Before that everything in FCP was working fine. I was just reconfiguring my (work) machine to mirror my home one system-wise. After finishing the reinstall, I can’t for the life of me get FCP to read my DV deck. Under Audio/Video settings it says “Missing” for “Video Playback”. All my FCP settings are the same I’ve always used and worked with fine. I’ve gone over all the recommended steps in previous Cow posts including:
— Trash prefs, check all the audio/video settings, test the cables (work fine) test firewire ports, trash prefs, trash QT receipts, upgraded FCP and QT, tested a different deck, and repaired permissions. No dice. It always indicates “Off” under external video, and when I try to launch log and capture, FCP crashes.
Now, one note: Recently, I had some serious internal hard drive issues with this computer. I came in one day to find it tweaked out and after talking to Apple, they thought it was a faulty drive. I took it out and just installed a new one and the computer can’t read it either in the same port. Even though I have FCP installed on a different drive that works fine, but is there a chance this could be a hardware issue that’s affecting both the drive slot’s connection and the deck connection?
Thanks,
John
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8 Replies
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Try looking here:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
This seems to be the answer to many of these kind of problems.
Worth a shot.
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Thanks for the tip, but I did try there. I have the latest version of QT and trashing those QT receipts didn’t help.
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Johnny 5. First off, this is for you:
Second try this. Power down everything. Disconnect all firewire devices. Now just connect your deck via firewire. Power on the deck. Power on your computer. Launch FCP and choose the dv ntsc easy setup. Does it work now?
Jeremy
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Hey Jeremy,
Sweet link! Never seen that one before. Thanks.
Well, I did what you said and when FCP first launched, it still wasn’t able to read the deck on launch. From there, I wasn’t able to go into the setup, however, because since one hard drive is down, I only have one internal drive and an external firewire that was set for capture scratch. Since you said to disconnect that, FCP wouldn’t launch all the way because I couldn’t set my install hard drive for the capture scratch and the external was disconnected, as you suggested.
Regardless, it didn’t read the deck when it first launched, so I think that didn’t do the trick.
Frustrating…
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So set your scratch drive to your internal for now. I bet you have a FW conflict.
Dude, with the name Johnny5, you have to know about Short Circuit. Right?
Jeremy
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Oh, yeah. I know about Short Circuit. That’s what my screen-name is based on. I just hadn’t seen that music video.
I gotta run, but I’ll try your last take when I’m back in the office Wed. A.M. It wasn’t letting me set it to internal last I tried, but I’ll work with it again.
Thanks.
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[johnny5] “Oh, yeah. I know about Short Circuit.”
Phew. Had me nervous there for a second.
[johnny5] “I gotta run, but I’ll try your last take when I’m back in the office Wed. A.M.”
Cool. Write back here. All you have to do is hit the ‘set’ button and reset the Cap scratch folder.
Jeremy
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Hey Jeremy,
Still no dice. I followed all your steps to shut down, disconnect peripherals, reconnect and restart my computer. I also reset my scratch disk to only my internal disk (instead of the the external firewire). And still it can’t read my deck.
Any other ideas? I’m stumped.
Thanks,
John
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