[John]

First off, let me thank you for your willingness to help!

You wrote: What is the error code in device manager associated with the 1394 device (or are firewire devices even showing up)?
Answer: No error is demonstrated in the device manager. It is all reportedly working fine.

You wrote: Of course, 64 bit OS’s are not supported currently.
Answer: Correct. I would not take issue if it was not a widespread problem.

You wrote: but it does not make any sense why you cannot get firewire to be recognized on your xp 32 system.
Answer: Agreed. I am not new to the issue of firewire for sure.

You wrote:Have you tried uninistalling the firewire card and reinstalling it via device manager?
Answer: I can try, however I doubt it is an issue.

You wrote: Firewire can burn out your firewire port on your cam and card as its ground is not like the ground in the USB. The USB grounds first then makes contact with the other leads. You may have burnt it out. Can you hook up your camera to anything else to see if it is recognizable?
Answer: This is frankly my biggest fear. I have hooked both cameras up to a seperate laptop and they were not recognized, however the laptop recognized same make and models camcorder.

You wrote: Any more details you can provide?
Tried disabling network 1394 every which way which didn’t change anything.

I have not hooked up another camera to the system because I have been afraid of causing the same problem to the camera I hook up.

I am open to testing if you have any recommendations. Any suggestion to determine the burned up cam firewire problem?

It is a Panasonic AG dvx 100b dv cam. No drivers need to be installed that I know of. I will try one other option I can think of which will be to hook it up to another laptop and another firewire device up to another laptop.

Thanks again for suggestions or even trying.

[John]

DSE,
Thanks for the straight forward answer. You confirmed my awareness of it as well. Ugg.

Thanks,
John

[John]

Sean,
Thanks for that info. I did not know that.
Could you eloborate a little more. Are you saying open quick time pro, load the prores file, and render to the cineform codec?

A friend is doing this for me on her final cut program, so I am just making sure I understand your recommendation.

thanks,
John

[John]

Sean,
Thanks for your help. I will give that a try. Could you elaborate on using quick time pro? I thought prores was prorietary and there was not quick time pro option–thought it had to be done in final cut studio 2 if it dealt with prores.

Thanks,
John