• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  one last question for now….firewire capture with firewire drive?

  Posted by Joe Procopio on May 2, 2007 at 5:14 pm

  if i’m using a firewire drive for storage connected to the front of my G5, and want to use a firewire deck/camera for capture, just to confirm, i need a Pyro or similar PCI-X firewire card because the rear firewire port is on the same bus as the USB which is used for my keyboard/mouse (the front USB is being used for my Wacom)

  Joe Procopio
  Broadway Video
  Editor/Engineer
  DS Nitris, Symphony Nitris, Media Composer, Final Cut Pro

  Joe Procopio replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Gillespie

  May 2, 2007 at 5:52 pm

  No, Do not pass go, and do not collect $200.

  First off, you can loop your FW cable from the deck through the drive, into the compter.
  Second, it doesn’t matter if it’s on the same bus (?), you have 2 FW 400 ports, use them.
  Lastly, we have FW hubs for all our edit stations to make it less crowded when connecting cables. Get a hub, connect it to the back with your deck, drives, and have a extra cable avalible for an extra drive, then you’ll have your front port open for anything that comes up.

  Good Luck,

  Todd at UCSB
  Television Production
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  Joe Procopio

  May 2, 2007 at 7:32 pm

  thanks…that’s good to know, so now i just have to figure out how to get control via firewire off the Sony DVCam 1500…i have control via 422, and have changed the control in the menu on the deck…still nothing…but i didn’t come out of FCP to see if it will now recognize the firewire drive.

  i am just setting this system up, and getting to learn the ins and outs…we are adding a couple FCP suites, with FCP Studio 2 when it comes out, and need to know how to do everything on them before we get the new systems….we currently own 6 or so FCPs, but they are used in our graphics and encoding departments as input and output for AE and other apps, our edit department is getting a couple to ease our need for converting things etc into our AVIDs.

  thanks again for all your help…everyone that has answered my novice questions so quickly. I have been on AVIDs since 96, and most recently DS Nitris…I like the interface on FCP…very DS like…but there are definately differences….stremgths and weaknesses of both Apple and AVID…I hope we can mesh them together to get the best out of both worlds!

  Joe Procopio
  Broadway Video
  Editor/Engineer
  DS Nitris, Symphony Nitris, Media Composer, Final Cut Pro

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