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gl2 import issue
im on a 2.5 dual core running 10.4, 4.5 gig ram, 20″ cinema, display and using a gl2 cam and fc studio 5 with all upgrades. until recently i had a dsr 11 dvcam deck so this problem was overlooked until now.
when i open imovie everthing working perfectly, cam recognized preview enabled and i am able to capture however its a pain to do it in imovie.fcp recognizes and controls the gl2 however when trying to capture preview is disabled and even when using the NOW capture option i get a message: this operation could not be completed as there is no video
ive been searching and looking everywhere for a solutions. please help
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I understand you pain… FCP doesn’t like the Canon GL2, I know that for sure. You mentioned that you can capture in iMovie but its a pain to edit. Well, why don’t you just import the quicktime files that you created when you captured in iMovie? There’s got to be a way to do that since a file has to be written before you can use it. Give that a try!
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thats what i have been doing. its a pain to do anything in imovie i believe. what irks me the most is that i cannot use the timecode embedded to automatically cut my clips at start/stops of the camera with imovie… or can i? if that is possible then i guess ill have to adapt…
what you are saying is that there is no way to make gl2 work with fcp? -
I use FCP 5 and the Canon GL2 for capture on occation and I’ve never had a problem. It reads the cam fine. Try re-installing FCP. Do you have an Ext. Firewire drive also? This can be a prob. sometimes. Putting the ext. drive on a firewire pci card cures it.
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yes i actually have an 800 fw 600gig maxtor external drive. i noticed a conflict when connecting the drive and some other devices but never associated this problem with the gl2. ive always had them both connected
as far as finacut pro goes i installed it not long ago on a formatted drive so i dont think its that large a problem. im thinking more along the preferences for fcp because again imovie recognizes it fine -
Well, try adding another firewire card to your system if you have a free slot. Both of my systems have two firewire cards in them, no problems at all.
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Wayne Carey
wcarey@strikeking.com
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