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FCP can’t see DSR-11 deck — why not?
I have some footage shot on full sized DVCAM and my regular deck only plays the mini-dv flavor. So I borrowed my neighbor’s DSR-11 deck. It plays the tape, I can monitor it with an S-cable hookup, but FCP is not seeing the deck. I plugged the same deck into my old PC to see if I could see it there in Premiere Pro, no dice.
Does this suggest a bad firewire out? Or… I know the firewire cable is working okay. Any suggestions of what I might be doing wrong? Got the easy setup for DV NTSC.
Thanks.
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Did you make sure the decks input is set to DV?
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Hi, thanks. Yes, the DV and NTSC lights are lit, and the picture and sound plays back fine through the S-cable into my monitor. But FCP doesn’t see the deck.
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try zapping the p-ram. works for me every now and then
hmm… I wonder what this button does…
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Zap the p-ram?? Could you explain?
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Can your neighbor get it to work through firewire?
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He’s going to try it on his system tonight, thanks…
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When you boot up, hold down apple+opt+P+R and hold down for 2 gongs, what that will do is reset your parameter ram. When i cant see my firewire drives and its not being detected, ill restart and if still not mounted, ill restart again and then “ZAP the p-ram”
hmm… I wonder what this button does…
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Thanks for the tip. Turns out to be a bad firewire out on the deck. But good to learn this tip.
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