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Daisy Chaining, CRASHING!
Hello,
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
I am in a desperate situation. I just got a new macbook pro, of which only has a firewire 800 port. When I go to import footage from a mini dv camera, I must plug in my Hard drive (to the F800 port), and then plug my XL2 into the hard drive. When I try to boot final cut, it crashes everytime (or simply doesn’t load, spinning wheel). However, if i unplug the XL2 from the back of the HDD when it is loading, it will instantly load up. Is there ANY way to fix this?
P.S. why did apple get rid of F400?!? It was such a handy port!!!!
Thanks,
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3 Replies
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If you are capturing DV, you may get away with hooking a drive up via USB. Not recommended but it can work for DV.
Try another drive. Hooking up the camera to a drive is not recommended either but it can work.
Do you have the 17″ (which is really the only Pro laptop left) if you do you can get a eSata or FW800 card for other ports.
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I have experience with this as I used to own a Canon xl2. This is a Canon issue, not FCP. I had this problem back in my Sony Vegas days too. A lot of Canon cameras wreak havoc when ANY other item is hooked up to FireWire. Your options are to connect an esata or USB drive as your capture, hook up your drive via a FireWire adapter into the express34 slot (if you have one), or capture to system drive and transfer the footage to tour FireWire drive once you\’ve completed capture.
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If you have a drive that has both Firewire 800 and USB 2.0 (WD makes these), you can capture with the drive connected via USB 2, then switch it to Firewire for editing.
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