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Connecting Sony PDW-F70 to Mac Pro
Please tell me exactly which cable I need to purchase to connect
this XDCAM playback device to my Mac Pro. The manual describes the FAM mode which allows the computer to access the HiDef files as if the unit was an external hard drive. I cant for the life of me find a (propriatory) Sony I Link s400 connector on one end and a stadard firewire 400 connector to plug into the Mac Pro. Help… -
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Any FW 400 cable will work. iLink is what Sony calls firewire… nothing special needed.
Jerry
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you just need stanadrd FW400 to FW400 cable (aka 6pin to 6pin) or a FW400 to FW800 (aka 6pin to 9pin)
you’ll also need Sony’s free XDCAM Transfer app to log, transfer and rewrap the MXF files as MOV’s, or you could buy and use a native MXF support component such as those sold by Calibrated Software or MXF4Mac in order to edit the MXF files natively (without rewrap) -
Thanks Jerry and Andy!
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