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Lost firewire connections
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Okay, now refresh your av devices. Do you have a firewire drive you can try and mount?
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OK, refreshed em, what gets me is the view-external video always reverts back to off imediately.
I have an antique lacie 60 gig fw drive I can dig out but it often had problems not showing up too.
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So when you go to external video and try to put it on all frames, it goes to off?
try the lacie. after that we are going to go back to your io. If the lacie doesn’t work, quit fcp, mount your io and turn it on. Launch FCP, hit control-q and choose an io preset. See if FCP sees that.
Sorry to give you the run around, but something is a miss here and I’m not so sure it’s your firewire port.
Jeremy
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Hey, you assistance is greatly appreciated.
[JeremyG] “So when you go to external video and try to put it on all frames, it goes to off?”
Yes, it switches right back to off if I go look at it again. (View -EXT Vid. -all frames)
I just connected up the lo and it is not recognised either.
It won’t capture with capture now.
Capture setting are aja sdi 8 bit to dvcpro 50 codec so it should capture. Mirror on desk top is on but the window is black and there is no file when I hit escape. I don’t think it will work because view ext. video keeps returning to off. I’ve re-trashed prefs again too. Because of our renovations all equip was disconected and the cableing is all heaped in several boxes. I’m having to dig for things. I can’t locate the component cables and fcp was set for YPbPr play back. This is where the av settings are currently locked. I can’t change them to sdi playback. I do get sdi from the deck to the lo and back out to the monitor through sdi from the lo but until I locate a set of component cables l can’t play a timeline to the monitor (from previuos proj.)
I’m thinking of picking up a new HDD tomorrow and pulling the system drives, booting from the tiger disc and installing everything from scratch. Then I get this job done and I can deal with this next week when the renos are complete and all the equip is back in place and all wired in properly. I’m all cramped in a little corner here with out much room to work on all this wireing etc. If I had dsp 4 on my old G4 I would have gone over to that system for this job. It has fcp 4 on it.
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I would run down to Best Buy (or whatever) and get yourself a PCI Firewire card. They’re really cheap. If your FW has gone bad – you’re just chasing your tail trying to get things to work, re-installing, etc… Besides then you’ll have those extra ports – because you know you can’t use the Io with any other FW device plugged into the internal bus.
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Great advice Charlie! I was just about to post this- I installed said card and I have lock on dv video in the capture window. I’m going back to work now and won’t even think about the “other issue” till I have the edit suite properly set-up and I can try to figure it out. This will do it till this project is done in the mean time so thankyou everyone for all the help. If I find out my firewire bus has fried itself I’ll be sure to post it. That type of thing should be a known issue (or have I been sleeping). I route beta sp, drs-85 and dvcpro all component or sdi through the lo so rarely capture mini dv through firewire so have not encountered this issue before. Charlie’s mention of it was the 1st I’d heard of such a thing.
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I don’t even remember where I read it…. but something in the DSR-1500 literature definately said “do not plug/unplug from the iLink interface while unit is powered on”. So hopefully it didn’t ruin things with the DSR-11!
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This is the old Quicktime bug. Go to Library/Receipts folder and select all the quicktime 6-7.13 entries and delete. You then have to go and download the latest version of Quicktime (7.13) and your firewire machine control will come back!
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Rennie,
Just read your entire thread. I’m having the exact same issue. AJA IO running smoothly, Sony DSR 11 not being recognized. What’s weird for me is I had the same problem running 10.3 with FCP 4.5. When I installed After Effects 7 the AJA quit capturing in FCP. I had deck control but no image (i.e. QT problem) so I upgraded everything. Now the DSR 11 Is being recognized in the firewire port in system profiler but will not log and capture. Basically same as your problem with the Firewire Missing Message. Wondering if you ever got IO and DSR 11 to work together. What did you do? I’m going crazy over here.
Do I really need to buy this card? Ws your firewire fried? Did you see it in system profiler when you were having problem? -
Yes, you really need to buy this card. From the AJA io FAQ available here, https://www.aja.com/html/support_Io_faq.html#faq6
“Q: If I use other FireWire devices at the same time as Io, will I encounter problems?
A: With Io and a G4/G5 computer, you cannot have two FireWire video devices (we’re not talking about storage devices) connected at the same time. Doing so causes driver conflicts. Unfortunately, even installing a PC FireWire interface card will not help with this; the only solution is using an external FireWire A/B switch to select a single device at a time.”Jeremy
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