fc studio firewire crash

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fc studio firewire crash

Posted by Patrick Kofler on October 11, 2005 at 3:17 pm

hi guys,

while working on different projects on fc studio after a few weeks after reinstallation of the whole system the firewire driver crashes. video out is usually set to the black magic design decklink extreme card. but since we shoot on dv we use a dv deck to capture and some times to print to tape the project. so what happens for example is: editing with video out set to bmd, need to capture some dv material, switch on the dv deck: fc studio crashes (the same happened with fcp 4.5). restart fcs (dv deck still switched on) and it crashes. restart fcs (dv deck switched off), it’s ok as long as I don’t switch on the dv deck, if I do so, then fcs crashes. After a few restarts of fcs it won’t start at all. The crash log says something like “…quicktime firewire output…” all the time. What I did until now to solve the problem was to reinstall the whole system (!!!), install and archive the old one. I didn’t have the problem with os x 10.3.8. But fcs needs at least 10.3.9. I sitll didn’t upgrade to tiger because it seems not to give that much advantages (until now). Does anyone know if tiger solves this kind of problems (or what else?)

Thanks Patrick

Gear: G5 dual 2 GHz 2 G RAM, external drives for video (1TB lacie and xserve raid 1TB), blackmagic design decklink extreme pci card, qt pro 7, os 10.3.9 updated til now

Jeremy Garchow replied 20 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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Jeremy Garchow
October 11, 2005 at 4:03 pm

Have you tried choosing the dv easy setup (the stock one, not the blackmagic one) before turning on the deck? I would choose the dv easy setup and FCP should say that it cannot find the external device. Hit ok. Hide fcp. Turn on the firewire deck, and if fcp doesn’t find it automatically, refresh devices. Also, there might be a bus conflict between your lacie and your firewire deck. You should have your lacie on a separate FW800 card (they are under $50 US).

Also, what kind of dv deck do you have? If there’s component outputs, why don’t you just run your deck through the Extreme? It might save you from all of this hassle.

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
Patrick Kofler
October 11, 2005 at 4:31 pm

Hi JeremyG,

I’going to experiment with the setups. I will report about that later. The Lacie is connected via the G5’s fw 800 port. Can there still be conflicts? The deck is a Panasonic nv dv 2000. So no component out. By the way, it would mean to decompress the dv material and recompress it into another codec. Via firewire it’s just a copying process, therefore lossless.

Thanks Patrick
Jeremy Garchow
October 11, 2005 at 4:45 pm

[Patrick Kofler] “The Lacie is connected via the G5’s fw 800 port.”

Yes, as firewire 400 and 800 share the same bus.

[Patrick Kofler] ” By the way, it would mean to decompress the dv material and recompress it into another codec.”

I understand, i was just trying to give you a quick fix and work around to get the job done.

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
Patrick Kofler
October 11, 2005 at 4:55 pm

ok, thanks,

but, I worked with simple fw 400 external disks and never had this problem. don’t know? to me it still seems a problem of the os 10.3.9, but I’m not quite sure.

patrick
Jeremy Garchow
October 11, 2005 at 5:07 pm

I was just simply pointing out a possible conflict. It might not be what is happening. Since you have upgraded to qt7 try this article and see if it’s any better:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

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