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Problem with Firewire
Hi there,
We’ve had a G5 for a couple of years now and have had a problem capturing directly in to it from firewire. The problem is that we get random drop-outs and skips in the video/audio. This is a very random problem. Sometimes we can go an hour of capturing and sometimes we only get a minute or two. We’ve tried capturing from different firewire devices with no success.
We’re using a G5 with dual 2.7 Ghz processors. 4.5 GB of DDR SDRAM.
Final Cut 5.0.1
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks,
Carson -
11 Replies
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Have you tried using a different firewire cable?
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
When you say “directly in to it” what exactly are you referring to? A second internal hard drive? The boot drive? An external drive? Firewire or USB?
Let us know where this video is going to.
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Hi,
What we’re doing is using firewire to encode directly into an internal second drive on the Apple. We’ve tried using different firewire cables, different decks. We’ve tried encoding to different internal drives. We’ve even reinstalled the software. No help with anything. This has been a very strange and aggravating problem.
One thought we have is to upgrade our capture card to handle firewire. That would bypass the firewire ports on the apple.
Carson -
If you have a capture card, why are you using firewire?
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Our current capture card is analog component only. We didn’t think we needed to have firewire on the card because we could capture directly using Apple’s firewire ports.
Carson -
Why don’t you capture analog component?
Most capture cards don’t have firewire for capture on them.
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Because it’s analog component. We’d rather capture in firewire if possible.
Carson -
Well, we can argue about that quality later, first we must test.
If you capture in analog component, does your footage skip around?
Do you have the drop frames warning option turned on?
What kind of card do you have?
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Jeremy,
When we capture using our capture card, no problem. We’re using the KONA LS card. We do have the drop frame warning turned on. We’ve never gotten a warning even when the clip has jumps in it.
So, I’ve been talking with one of our editors and he gave me the capture config that he’s been using to capture firewire direct. Can you or someone verify that this is correct for capturing firewire directly on to an internal hard drive.
Here are our settings:
Capture Preset- Frame size 720X480
Aspect- NTSC 3;2
Quick time setting- DV Video
Input DV-VCR
Compressor- DV/DVC-PRO- NTSC
Quality 100%
Frame rate- 29.97Thanks for any advice.
Carson -
Carson,
Do you have anything else attached to any of the FW ports on your machine? They all share the same buss.
Regards,
David
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