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Backwards firewire cable
I may have done a very bad thing. I use FCP on a G4, I hooked up the firewire cable backwards on the computer and the other end was hooked correctly to a Sony DSR-11 DVCAM Deck. Everything seemed to be working fine on Sat. But now when I open FCP I get an error message that the apple firewire is missing. I tried buying a new firewire cable and a new firewire card but the error message remained. I took the DSR-11 to my firends place who has FCP also and hooked it up, correctly this time, and got the same error message. Did I really mess up my DSR-11 and/or the MAC?
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4 Replies
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How can you hook it up backwards? It has a distinct shape that doesn’t allow it to go in any other way.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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I shoved it in, not paying attention. I could not see it and was in a hurry. I will not make that mistake again.
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if it worked, then how could it have been in backwards???
Alexander Gao
“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”
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[karatevideoguy] “Did I really mess up my DSR-11”
Hi
I know someone else who did this (with a hard drive not a DSR-11). He killed everything in the chain, but not the Mac I think.
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