• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  how to load xdcam with new mb pro

  Posted by Jurriaan Van der kamp on February 22, 2009 at 10:44 am

  Hi
  Material shot with a sony 530 xdcam i import (with fcp) with a firewire 400 cable.
  I’v been taught always to load my scratch material to an external firewire 800 lacie hd. With the new Macbook pro i’m a hole short.
  Does anyone no a solution.

  Kent Stipp replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Andy Mees

  February 22, 2009 at 1:24 pm

  Jurriaan

  The Lacie will have more than 1 firewire port, so that you can daisy chain your XDCAM camera or deck through that eg MBP <> Lacie <> XDCAM
  You can use Sony’s XDCAM Transfer to log and transfer the footage from your camera in File Access Mode (FAM) then unmount and disconnect the camera … and edit.

  Best
  Andy
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  Zane Barker

  February 22, 2009 at 5:40 pm

  I recomend getting an esata express card and conecting your media drives via esata. Besides keeping your camera/deck on a compleatly seperate bus on the computer from your media drives, esata is much faster then FireWire.

  There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
  Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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  Kent Stipp

  February 23, 2009 at 3:24 pm

  IN following Zanes post. the MBP’s single firewire buss is not a big fan of the daisy chain scenario where a camera is concerned. I use the Express 34 slot with a sonnet sata card and a external sata and get great results.

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