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Amy Linton
December 9, 2009 at 12:17 am in reply to: Sony DSR 11 DV cam deck to Macbook Pro-Am I screwed?

If you can find a way to make it work, please tell me!! I

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Amy Linton
December 9, 2009 at 12:16 am in reply to: Sony DSR 11 DV cam deck to Macbook Pro-Am I screwed?

I would have selected that template but this deck is not listed in the Sony array of decks. I tried others with a number close to it but no….

On my G4 it automatically recognizes it and loads on the FW400 port as a Generic NTSC device.

If I try to autoconfigure I get an error message: no ports were found for external devices.

I also am trying to load from a video camera to see if that will help troubleshoot; no luck with that either.

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Amy Linton
December 8, 2009 at 3:46 pm in reply to: Sony DSR 11 DV cam deck to Macbook Pro-Am I screwed?

Can anyone help me figure out what I am not doing to get deck control?

I’ve tried getting a new cable for the deck with an 800 on the other end
I’ve tried a Sonnos coupling converter, and a PCI card with FW 400
ports. I tried running through another drive. Nothing seems to work.

When I go into capture mode using these devices, I start getting a
loud clicking sound—feedback of some sort. I got an error message
when I tried the PCI card: “Switch to 1394 mode before configuring
an OHCI device.” But I see no way to switch. In reading threads on
AVID and Creative Cow, I’ve found things going back to 2005 that
mention this, but nothing for the new MacBook and that seems to be related to people using Mojo/DNA which I don’t have. I’m only working with SD mini DV and from what I keep reading I should be able to plug directly into the computer.

I feel like it must be some sort of setting in the AVID but I’ve tried everything I can think of…deck configurations, etc.

Can anyone help me???

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Amy Linton
November 12, 2009 at 11:39 pm in reply to: Sony DSR 11 DV cam deck to Macbook Pro-Am I screwed?

I have the cable but the Macbook pro wants me to bring in video on OHCI/1394. I’ve looked thru the book and on the forum and can’t seem to find out how to get that option. No options appear in the capture tool in the video or audio windows and in deck configuration I tried both direct on no port and firewire no port. Everything lists ‘no port”.

I am not using mojo/dna devices.

The avid also makes a very unpleasant loud clicking sound when I’m trying to figure this out!

Thank you for your help!

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Amy Linton
September 21, 2008 at 1:50 pm in reply to: how do ya use yer Avid?

I used my xpress pro to make this documentary:
https://www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html

Once I got everything up and running, it worked great. My partner is in NY so I was able to travel up there with my whole editing room in one small carry-on. The film was released theatrically and at festivals on over 100 screens. I co-produced the film and everything up to online was done on my mac laptop. Hard to believe how far it has come—I remember when we used 600mb drives the size of shoe boxes, and when the 9 gig drives came out we felt so empowered!!

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