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new iMac and FW 800
I have a new iMac. I have a Sony camera with 4pin FW out. The only FW input to the iMac is 800. So I got a 4 pin to 9 pin cable. Plugged the camera into an external capture FW drive and the drive into the 800 port. When I plugged the camera in, the drive unmounted from the desktop. When I disconnected the camera, the drive came back up. I then connected the camera directly to the iMac – 4 pin to 9 pin – and started up FCP. It wouldn’t see the camera. I finally succeeded by using a 400 cable going into a hard drive that went 800 out, into the computer.
So… how can it be that you can’t connect a camera to the iMac and have it work? Is there something I’m missing? Has anyone else had this problem yet with a new iMac? -
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iMacs, MacPros and MacBook Pros all have one firewire bus. They may have multiple ports but still only one bus. Depending on which FW device you use, it may take up all the bandwidth.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Daisy chaining a camera off of a hard drive can be vary problimatic. I recomend ether using a hard drive based camera or switching to a drive that conects via gigabit Ethernet if you plan on using an iMac for video editing.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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personally i just capture to the internal drive and then move it to the external firewire drive.
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