Cant capture to la cie external

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Have you re-formatted the Drive to correct Mac standards?

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~pcarbo/macnexstar.html

Here’s a link.

[Scott Tugel]

Yes, reformatted correctly. Now I find that I can not capture to any of the other drives here. 1 external acomdata 250gb. 1 la cie 500 gb d2,and the internal mac hd. The only one that seems to work is the internal second drive western digital 400gb. So weird… it even started to have some problems. I found that the auto save and waveform caches were set to the mac hd. after changing to the wd400 It worked fine again. Still.. the others wont work. I press play on the camera and capture now after. Then I get the wheel of death and lock up of the log and capture window. I sooo need help on this one. Anyone with solutions would be great

[Scott Tugel]

Is it that when I have two external drives attached to the computer, that fcp freaks out and doesnt know how to capture?
I had the scratches set to the disc I wanted?
Please… some insight I have called all of the mfgs and they keep sending me to the next without knowing any solutions.
Very frustrating.
Thank You Everyone

[Miodrag Ristic]

That’s right Shifter,
I bet you are importing from a Canon camera?

It seems to be that you have 2 different external hard drives (probably LaCie) connected
at the same time or daisy chained.
If they were daisy chained, connect each hard drive into different firewire port, preferably
one (Lacie) to FW 800, other into FW 400 and then your FCP will recognise your Canon (I’ve got 2 BTW).

Even If you disconnect one external drive and work with just one on,
you won’t have problems. It’s a Lacie / Canon FireWire issue, not FCP.

Let me know if this helps.

Cheers

Mick
http://www.digitalvideovault.com.au

[Scott Tugel]

You nailed it.I knew it! Those duuuuudes at la cie were like uhhhmmmm?
I was going to call canon as the last call. Any fixes for this or just use one deck connected at a time?
Man this screwed me up today. btw Do you have canon gl2’s
Even on my internal I had to diconnect the lacie to get it to work. Are there any settings for the camera that might help?
Thank You so much for knowing something when everyone else was baffled. Seems canon has some issues with a bunch of different drives.
Best Regards
Scott

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If this is the problem, don’t use a Canon unit as your “deck.”

Use anolther brand of camcorder or deck instead.

I have bought many home video camcorders (Sony & Panasonic) from Pawn shops for around $125 or so.

Be sure and try playing a tape that was recorded on your Canon on any unit that you are looking to buy.

[Miodrag Ristic]

Yes, 2 GL2s, try someones camera, other than Canon,
and buy something cheap just for import.

I didn’t need to, I just switch of my other ext Lacie
when importing. The other one is now just a stoarge,
when needed I just transfer from “storage” drive
to “media” and start editing.

FYI, I’m using a FS-4 hard drive for recording directly
to a hard drive, so I don’t import much from a tape anyway (30 %).

Did you plug one in FW 800 port and other in FW 400 port?
Try that before you buy.

Cheers

Mick