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  • Posted by Andrew Zador on January 17, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    Hello,
    I have just performed an OS upgrade. It is running MAC OS X 10.6.5 right now. I could capture HDV footage before, but now I can’t. It says: Unable to initialize capture device. I have tried three different firewire cards, all compatible with MAC, and I have tried several Capture Presets and Device Control Presets with each card. Please help me. I would appreciate it very much.
    Andrew

    Thom Obarski replied 15 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Peele

    January 18, 2011 at 1:08 am

    Why are you using firewire cards and not the built-in ports? Connect the camera to the built-in port. If you are using external storage you can try connecting it to the other card(s). Otherwise take out the other cards.

    Make sure your HDV device is in playback mode not record mode.

    Also make sure the HDV device is set to playback on HDV and not DV-NTSC (in the camera menu).

  • Thom Obarski

    January 18, 2011 at 2:43 am

    also if you just preformed an update you will probably need to rerun your easy setups

    “This is post, you can’t fix it after this.”

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