Final Cut Pro Firewire Problem?

[Dave Farrants]

I had this happen with a G5, took a generic cheap 3 xFireWire input PCI card from a PC and installed it in a spare slot, worked a treat.

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[Shane Ross]

I concur. You’ve changed the cables, and the camera…so the culprit has to be the ports. They went bad.

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[William T]

I put in a Firewire PCI hub card and connected my external hard drives. They work fine but still nothing to the cameras…. Should I reinstall FCP?

[Alan Okey]

Trash your FCP preferences. It’s quite common for a corrupted preference file to be the cause of non-working FireWire in FCP.

[William T]

How exactly do I trash them? Are these the preferences listed after the program is open or is a preferences folder in the system folder?

[Alan Okey]

https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1846?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

[William T]

Thanks. I trashed the FCP Preferences and verified hard drive- restarted and it still does not recognize the firewire.

Bill