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IF CAPTURING VIDEO ON A MACPRO, USE THE BACK PORT
Here’s a little time-saver for anyone having issues with dropped frames while capturing video to a (first generation) MacPro – After a few hours of trouble-shooting over the phone with Apple, we discovered that the FRONT Firewire port is slower than the BACK (due to the way it is connected to the logic board) – So, if you’re capturing video via firewire and having dropped frame issues, USE THE BACK PORT. Just thought I’d pass that along…
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Interesting, we’ve captured to both here with no issues.
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Ditto. This also begs the question what goes into the back port, the deck, or the drive? As it stands right now, on my dual 2ghz macpro I have the DSR-11 attached to the back, and the FW400 drive attached to the front port. No problems at all.
Is mine a 2nd generation? Is there a 2nd gen MacPro? Just got mine in January.
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Hmmm.. I’m not sure – All I know is that it definitely solved the problem when I used the back port (both from a deck and camera firewire), and the support person I was dealing with at Apple spoke to his superiors, who confirmed there were problems with the front firewire ports of the first MacPros – They said they had the same problems with the G5d when they came out – Either way, it’s good you guys didn’t run into any problems, I just thought I’d share for those who were struggling with this issue 🙂
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Are you plugging the camera and the deck into the same port? Via daisy chain? Perhaps the front is slower and just can’t handle the daisy chain. I’ve got a deck in the back an drive in the front.
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(like I said, originally)
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