James Lingo
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Okay. A few minutes after posting here about this problem I had a sudden epiphany and smacked my skull. For those of you whose gear has been working fine and then it seemed to suddenly stop being recognized (and whose cams still show up in system profiler/firewire) I just checked and any changes to your actual camera’s settings can result in it appearing as a new camera requiring a different easy-set up configuration (hence the frustration of the [missing] tag).
I had just lent my cam to a friend and he changed the settings to record in HD. All I’ve been using for a year is NTSC so when I hooked the cam back up I didn’t even realize. I went through a few different presets before one finally let me rewind/ffw but with no image which let me know I was on the right track, and then two more later and I was golden.
Hope this helps…
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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.