Problems with capturing media w/ Mini DV deck via firewire

[Luke David]

Use the CCow search engine to find more postings on this topic. I had the exact same issue and resolved it by trashing the quitime receipts and deleting and re-installing QT player. I am willing to bet that is the issue, but do the search for better instructions.

[Shane Ross]

If you updated to QT 7 recently?

Shane’s Stock Answer #30:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1063600&#1063600

The credit for this goes to Bob Sidebotham:

I was just walked through a repair procedure by an Apple Care person, and it fixed my camera recognition problems (I have a Canon XL1 and sometime after installing Tiger, then 10.4.1, various patches (including Quicktime 7.1) and the latest Desktop Video patch, I’ve been unable to use the camera with Final Cut Express, and attempts to capture would result in a FCE crash).

The workaround is to download Quicktime *manually*, after removing the “receipts” which indicate that it is loaded. Specifically, I was told to do the following:

1. Navigate to Library -> Receipts on your main drive (not from your personal folder).

2. Remove all files of the form QuickTime*.pkg, where “*” is a version number. E.g. QuickTime600.pkg, QuickTime650.pkg, Quicktime700.pkg and QuickTime701.pkg. This simply tells your system that those packages are not installed.

3. Go to https://www.apple.com/quicktime/downloads and click on the “download Quicktime” link. DO NOT USE THE AUTOMATIC UPDATE UTILITY. Download QuickTimeInstallerX.dmg. Double click this file (probably on your desktop) and then invoke the installer by double clicking QuickTime701.pkg.

4. After your computer reboots, you should be able to restart FCP and see your camera.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Siencynl]

I’m pretty sure that 4.5 won’t work with qt7. I was told not to uprgrade qt until I’d upgraded fcp to version 5. Cnsequently you need to search the apple downloads archive for qt version 6

[Crys]

Yes, I always try to search the forum before posting a question, but I guess I did not do a very good job with the searching this time…

I’m pretty sure I have done those instructions to upgrade to QT7. I was told to upgrade before to fix some other problem; not the current problem I am having now.

If I go back to QT6, it may fix this problem I have now, but my other problem that I had before (wish I could remember what it was!!) will probably come back. Is it best to upgrade to FCP 5?

[Jim Martin]

FCP 4.5 should work with QT 7.01 and recognize the deck, but not with QT 7.04.

jim

[Crys]

I’ve encountered another problem…

I followed the instructions and deleted all QT files and download QT 7.01. When I try to install 7.01, Quicktime will not let me install on the Macintosh HD. It says that “the disk is dimmed because it does not contain an appropriate version of QuickTime”

Did I do something wrong?

Thanks again for your help!