sony hdv deck

[T. Payton]

Oh my bad Tony. I should have addressed that to Adam who asked the original question.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Adam Dewhirst]

timothy,

i have been using the exact settings that are suggested in that link. it seems the imac just isn’t reading the firewire connecting at all.

it seems atmomos are having problems with firewire and 10.02 as well. speaking to their helpdesk they said i have to use usb for the time being with my ninja.

last night i discovered a storage intensive workaround (60 mins = 85 gb). i simply conect the sony deck via hdmi to the ninja, press play on the deck and rec on the ninja. the files open in fcp x.

i spent an hour with apple support on the phone and all they could say was try a different cable.

[T. Payton]

You can see if it is a bad FW connection by checking the system profiler in the firewire section (Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info).

That Ninja looks incredibly cool! I wish I had a use for it.

To make it take up less space, switch your Ninja to ProRes LT, you’ll be around 50GB for an hour. You could always transcode back to HDV or XDCam if you really wanted to. But I would just stick with ProRes LT.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Adam Dewhirst]

thanks timothy,

i did the system check and i go to hardware then firewire and all it thats their is the speed. am i looking in the right place?

adam

[T. Payton]

If you don’t see anything in the firewire list then the computer just doesn’t see the device. Here is what my firewire bus looks like with a a miniDV camera, and a few other things connected:

Sounds like your Ninja is the way to go.

The other alternative is to borrow/rent/buy another HDV deck or camera. I”ll be someone has a Canon HV 30 laying around (I do). If time is more important than money I would suggest that as you injesting will go much faster with FCP X and a HDV camera.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Adam Dewhirst]

cheers timothy,

must be either the cable or the deck than…

you’ve been much more help than apple support…

i’ll check ebay for a hv30

adam