video playback say (missing) apple firewire NTSC 720×480

[Jeremy Garchow]

Did you restart with your dv deck on?

Have you recently upgraded your os or quicktime? If so, check this:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Don Greening]

Make sure the camera is properly plugged in. Sometimes the firewire cable will partially pull out of the camera end and it’s not noticed. Wait untill your mac is fully started up then turn on the camera, then start FCP. See if that solves it.

– Don

[Andrew]

everything I have is correct, as far as I know, It all worked fine until yesterday and now the FW is missing, I have no Idea.

[Don Greening]

Andrew,

Then try trashing the FCP preference files and see if that works.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

Make sure your capture preset hasn’t been changed to anything other than DV NTSC 48k firewire in/out, etc. If it’s still a no go you may have a situation now with a bad FW cable or port on either the camera or the Mac. It’s just a process of elimination, triying a different cable, camera, computer. There’s also the fix you can try with resetting the PMU switch inside the Mac that will reset the FW ports. This is a last ditch attempt and you should only do it after you follow the directions exactly in your Mac owners manual.

– Don

[Ryun Hovind]

ANother posting may be the same issue. I’m trying to work it out myself. But here’s their advice. BTW, I trashed my FCP prefs and still can’t get away from t he (missing) apple firewire issue.

RH

Subject: Re: Final Cut Pro 5 doesn’t recognize camera
Try this:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852

[Jeremy Garchow]

Do you have other firewire drives or decks on the same firewire bus? If so try installing a $40 PCI firewire card to separate your drives from your camera.

Does the firewire bus work (can you plug in a firewire drive and have it show up)?

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Andrew]

I weird, i have my cinema screen in there and it works fine, it was working fine since day one with my DV deck and thats like 2 years now, i havent changed a thing, all i know is i was capturing everything the other day all was great and then i start up the other day and it say missing FW in all the presets.

[Ryun Hovind]

Reinstalling Quicktime worked for me, it’s free and is pretty quick to do… does require a restart.

RH

[Jeremy Garchow]

Okay. Can you plug anything else into that firewire port and have it work, such as a firewire drive. I’m trying to see if your firewire port is sizzled.

[James Lingo]

I’ve been having the same problem with the imacs and canons at my college (Cal, Go bears!) which I chalked up to the school not having the money for the latest equipment. Especially since my hackintosh at home had no problems with my cnanon vixia hv40. However I always have the canon on and plugged in when I start up my pc and then final cut. After months of no issues I started up once and I can’t solve this.

An easy way to check the firewire connection is to look in the system profiler and select the firewire tab. Mine literally reports my specific camera model and yours should too. At that point its something to do with either a software conflict/glitch or something with the cameras. the schools gear randomly worked on and off again (with a few of the imacs working at any given time, but no one really sure why which one was working at the moment) and I can’t figure out for the life of me why camera switching would be so tempermental on this software.

If anyone makes any progress on this, and actually understands why please let me know. I’m beginning work as a mac genius myself soon so maybe they’ll teach me something related to this and I’ll update you guys if I’ learn anything first, but I doubt it.