Firewire i.LINK 1394 to Mac Pro

[Mike Fitzsimmons]

It’s not pretty, but I remember having some success running a combination 400->800->TB. Certainly not permanent.

[Mark Smith]

I do this all the time . TB to FW 800 then there are 800 to 400 cables which still can be found in case you need that mini FW 400 connector to connect to either a camera or a DSR machine. A visual summation of the scheme.

[Mark Smith]

[Eric Santiago]

Hey, I have the same cables, but it’s in storage now.
No more FW decks in my home.

[Xavier Paredes]

Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to even post a picture.

Xavier

[Andrew Prendergast]

I too have been trying to import edited DV tapes into FCPX Pro and also had to use an unwieldy number of cables. I achieved success in that, yes, I could import. However I have hit a serious problem. My edited tape is broken up into its individual shots though it keeps the edited sound with it. Somehow these individual shots have kept a record of when they were first recorded and appear in my browser in that order. Reasembling them is an entire new jigsaw like edit as the sound needs to match up. I have FCP7 on an old computer, where this was never a problem, and am going to have to dig it out to try and get round this problem and import edited programmes as a whole. Have you hit this problem and have you found a workaround? My Googling suggested the problem was down to time code breaks or dodgy tapes. My problem does not appear to agree with that.

[Mark Smith]

It took me a while to find that FW800 to FW400 cable and its way too long for the situation, but I bought it anyway just to squash the need for another adapter in the chain. If you check around you still might be able to find that cable- i’ve long since lost the link to the place I bought it .

[Eric Santiago]

[Andrew Prendergast] “My Googling suggested the problem was down to time code breaks or dodgy tapes. “

Maybe not helpful but I use brute force dub to dub when I have issues like that.
I would dump from one deck to another.
We have an XDCAM deck here that I’ve managed to dump a ton of minDV/DV too.

Now, of course, the last time I did that was 2012 🙁

[Michael Mcdade]

OK,
I have some old DVCPro SD tapes and have been trying to do the same thing. I do have a older Mac Pro I hooked up since it has firewire 400 and I found a DVCPro AJ-D250 deck that has fire400 connections. I first tried going into Final Cut X. But it seemed to create some audio issues. Not sure if was because I have AJA Kona LE card installed, but I was going direct from the deck to the computer. Using the Dv import tool in Final Cut X.
However, then I tried just using QuickTime to record the file as a proRes file. Seems to be a better option for me.