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Urgent help needed in xfer from HVX200p to FCP
I am pushing my luck expecting you guys to be reading this during NAB, but I’m desperate, and could sure use some quick help:
So I am shooting an HD spot tonight with this rented camera, and doing testing this morning, shooting 720P30.
I hook up the firewire cable, follow the manual on pg. 84 on how to set the thing to PC mode>1394 device, I push and hold the mcr button, then the camera screen tells me “1394 device… disconnect.”
WTH??? Connecting and re-connecting the firewire cable to the front of the mac tower makes no difference. I was expecting the camera to show up on my desktop like a drive so I could just transfer the files off the P2 cards then import to FCP, but no dice.
Went into FCP and tried a couple EZ setups. None seemed to recognize the P2 camera. I want to either do a file transfer from P2 to FCP video drive, or use the log and capture settings under FCP> P2.
HELLLLPPP! I am sure there is something horribly obvious I’m not doing right. Can someone walk me thru it please?
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On the back of the camera is a button to set the camera top VCR mode. It won’t recognize until that is changed. If you have already done that I’m not sure what it is.
Dave
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Yes, I did that first thing. I’m not clear which 1394 mode this is supposed to be in. I tried it under the “host” setting and the “device” setting. In HOST mode I get the menu with the options Copy to HDD, format HDD Property and setup. The menu cursor will only go to the setup yes/no option, not to any of the others. Selecting yes or no seems not to make a difference, it’s like the menu is locked somehow.
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Do you think the AJA IO has anything to do with this? I don’t think it should, since the mac should be able to recognize any kind of thing you plug into the firewire port, even if it’s just to say hello, there is a new firewire device on here, I don’t know what it is, what do you wanna do with it? It is not even getting that far in detecting the camera. Data transfer, drag and drop to the tower’s drives, or FCP import, I’m not picky, but I GOTTA get one or the other soon or I’m sunk!
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[Mark Suszko] “Do you think the AJA IO has anything to do with this?”
Yes, unplug it.
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Will try right now and report back.
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Maybe that was it, because I tried unplugging the AJA IO, rebooting with the firewire cable connected to the front and the camera already powered-up and in 1394 device mode, where it was reading “1394 disconnect”. I then sighed, pulled the cable off the front of the mac, put it in one more time, and after a minute or so YES! got a generic new drive icon on the decktop, and I opened up FCP and selected import>P2, and there are my test clips! Yay! I clicked on just the first clip I shot and dragged it to the timeline, but audio did not accompany it. What’s the best way to bring everything into FCP timeline and bin all together, audio with video?
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Perhaps you imported it without audio? Double click the file to load into the viewer. Any audio there?
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Nope, so I went back to camera menus and changed a few things around, recorded a fresh clip with good sound for sure. It plays back in the camera fine, with sound.
Now I just tried to replicate the exact sequence of actions that made the camera show up on the desktop for the first time, and again, I got bupkis. This is very upsetting. Working one time out of ten tries is bad for my blood pressure!:-) I am wondering if it’s a bad firewire cable tot he camera. I’ll tell you one hting, for my first intotduction to P2 workflow, color me unimpressed so far. It’s not idiot-proof enough for me yet, obviously!
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I suspecta bad firewire cable, will grab a new one while I get a burger and a pez dispenser full of antacids. Looking at the folder that came up witht he first successful import, the audio file was empty. I just now got the thing to be recognized again, after some massaging of the cable connector (hence my suspiction the cable is bad), but while the generic drive icon is there, and the camera says it’s hooked up, the new test footage with sound I just shot is not being found by Import>p2 dialog in FCP. Clicking on the drive icon for the camera shows allt he right foldes are there, but empty. yet, using in-camera playback mode, it’s there.
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More after lunch, thanks for hanging in there with me on this.
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New cable, no difference. Oh, and Radio Shack are bandits, but you knew that.
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