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FireWire problems?
I’m using a AMD Computer for Avid-editing. I’ve set up the computer myself and it works (almost) all fine.
The only problem I’ve got is when working with the FireWire. As Long as I have prelogged clips I can batch-capture all fine, but working with the camera/player in logging/recording situations makes a lot of trouble – the whole computer seem to crash. It just stops thinking. Same thing goes for monitor preview through FireWire.
Anyone have experience with this? Is there any setting? Or would it help to change the FireWire hardware?
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2 Replies
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I have no idea of what motherboard you are using, but you need two different busses to keep the firewires on. On a HP xw8000 or xw8200, the native Firewire port is on one buss, which is shared with slots 1 and 2 on the motherboard, so if you plugged in a firewire card to one of those slots, you get the exact problem you are having. However, if you move the same firewire card to slots 3, 4 or 5, you are on a different buss, so there is no conflict between the firewire for the camera, and the firewire for the drives.
I had a client that built a bare bones AVID Xpress DV system on a HP xw4100 which had no native firewire ports, and they could not get the system to work because of the buss conflict issue.
Bob Zelin
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Thanks- that helped a bit. Now I’m not having trouble with Avid going on hang-up. I can use Avid with the camera connected without problems. I still have problems with preview- the machine hangs, but in an more moderate way then before. Strange-
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