RED FCP7 Capture on MAC PRO with Blackmagic Decklink Extreme

[Will Griffith]

1. several FW 800 cables?
2. made sure you are using an external AC power adaptor with the drive?

Don’t give up yet.

[Arnold Foote]

Hello All,

Thank you very much for your advice. I did try everything. I got strange results on some, and no results on others. I did manage to recover some of the footage late at night last night.

The drive finally mounted on a Sony Vaio using Vista. It didn’t work on Windows 7, nothing really does anyway. It didn’t work on anything prior to Vista either. My daughter came home and as an act of separation, I tried her beat up Vaio. It mounted after a 2 minute wait… the indicator light is what gave me hope.

Some files copied, some files didn’t. The drive would disappear whenever a bad block appeared. Then I would pray that it would mount again.

So I have recovered enough to finish the production, thankfully.
Thank you everyone. You all kept me sane in these troubled moments.

Cheers,
J

jj.foote@mac.com