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Files repeatedly going offline once captured in FCP HD 4.5
I am capturing video footage from my camera to my external harddrive but the files I am capturing and saving keep going offline – but usually days after they were captured. Most times when I re-open FCP at least some files have disconnected and often these are random and not related to what I’ve been most recently working on. I always save as I go and when I close the application I make sure everything looks fine and is where it should be.
What could be making this occur?
Will reinstalling the application likely resolve this issue and if I do uninstall it to reinstall, will I lose any of my material in the process?
I have a Powerbook G4 and a Promax DVBox 320GB of which I have 190GB’s left. I set the capture scratch to capture audio and video seperately. I use a Canon Optura 300 as my deck and am using FCP HD 4.5. I have tried daisychaining my camera to the DVBox but the DVBox doesn’t read on my computer when I do that so I have reverted to firewiring my camera to my computer and connecting the external harddrive via firewire 800.
Any help greatly appreciated,
Lisa Salem -
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Make sure the external hard drive is the only thing plugged into your Powerbook’s Firewire ports (the 800 and 400 share the same bus and are not separate – meaning they can interfere with each other). Using a Firewire card in your Powerbook for the drive would be a good idea. Also, I suggest making sure the firmware is up-to-date for the drive and checking with ProMax about any compatibility issues.
Tony!
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Thanks Tony. Will do.
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