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FCP Z1 insanity, little help please…
Hello all,
I’m a bit of a final cut novice, but I’ve been tasked with capturing some stuff today so here’s my problem…
We have a sony Z1 and are using it to capture stuff. In the last few days it has been used to successfully capture both DVCAM and HDV footage. Then all of a sudden it stops working. It starts crashin one of our new macs, and won’t work with our backup laptop. Clearly, a camera problem then. So we borrow another company’s Z1 and it still won’t work. I’ve been trying it on my quad G5 today and the problem has developed; now final cut wont even start if the camera is switched on, regardless of the camera settings. If FCP is running already and the camera is switched on the spinning beach ball appears and FCP freezes. When the camera is switched off normal service is resumed.
It’s not the firewire cable, and surely 2 Z1s can’t spontaneously develope the same problem, it was working fine a couple of days ago and nothing has changed software-wise. It suddenly won’t work with 3 seperate computers all running FCP 5.0.4
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or had inexplicable problems with the Z1? I would try updating the software or something but I’m waiting for advice from our absent resident tech-head so I thought I would try here!
Thanks chaps…
nico
osx 10.4.5
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Nico- Close out of final FCP>Trash FCP Preferences>Turn on Z-1>plug in firewire>go to Apple menu ‘About this Mac’>more info>select firewire devices. Is the Z-1 there standing tall? If not you have a camera/firewire/computer issue. If it is there you have a camera/firewire settings issue that may have been fixed by dumping preferences. Hope this helps.
JerryG5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP5 Studio
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
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If you search the HDV forum, there’s an issue where you’re supposed to fully power down both the camera and the Mac before connecting the Firewire cable. Apparently lots of folks have fried their camera firewire ports by not powering down first.
Hopefully that didn’t happen to you.
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Thanks guys, looks like I did fry my firewire port on the camera. And, indeed, the port of another company’s camera we borrowed. Uh oh….!
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