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macbook pro firewire
My Macbook pro cannot recognize a camcorder used as a deck and the external hard drive at the same time. I know having a sata card is recommended and I do plan to get one, but is this normal? The drive is a 2TB raid 0 Maxtor firewire 800 and the cam is a standard def mini-dv Canon firewire 400.
What do folks do if they don’t have an ExpressCard/34? I don’t want to corrupt my system drive. Would it be ok to capture to the system drive, then unplug the cam, boot up the hard drive and transfer the files over and teach FC where the media is? I don’t want to corrupt my system drive. I will order the expresscard but want to know if something is wrong with the system.
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[craig alan] “I will order the expresscard but want to know if something is wrong with the system. “
There’s nothing wrong with your system. Canon camcorders are famous for trying to control the FW port and for not allowing other devices to share that port. You can capture to your startup drive and then transfer your footage to the external hard drive, then delete the footage from your internal drive afterwards. But yeah, get that Express 34 adapter sooner rather than later. It’ll make your editing life with that Canon camera a whole lot easier.
– Don
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Thanks, Don.
I’m ordering a bunch of Canon HV30s for our video class. I asked the sales rep (a video prod pro place) about the problems I’ve had in the past with Canon’s and he assured me these problems have been corrected.
It was my understanding, previously, that the problems involved head misalignment and therefore sync issues and a slightly different firewire standard. Thus I needed to use the Canon cams as decks rather than the Sony dsr-11 I was using for everything else-sonys, panas, JVCs. My concern is that the computers they have ordered for this lab are Imacs, which have only one firewire bus and no way to add to it. If what you describe, and I am experiencing with the macbook pro is true, then the only work around would be as you described above making hundreds of captures an extra step.
OSX 10.5.3; MAC PRO 2 X 2.8 GHZ (EARLY 2008); FCP Suite; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170;Canon xl2; Pana consumer cams; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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I had this issue some time ago with a Canon XM2 and a MacBook Pro. The workaround I came up with was to connect the external drive using USB for capturing, eject and reconnect with FW for editing.
Samuel Hall
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I encountered the same problem. I was using a mac book to capture my snowboarding footage from my pana gs350 and had to settle for capturing the footage directly onto my computer (frowned upon) then moving it to my firewire external for editing after I disconnected my camera. I really think that macs should be equipped with multiple firewire ins by now, I mean, cmon! Macs are for production! I just picked up a brand new fully loaded Imac and it has ONE firewire input! PLEASE
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