Kevin Morrison
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That might be the ticket — yes — and it makes me wonder if I have a friend who has an old G4 powerbook… hmmm…
Clearly, there’s a market for a PCM card reader which would connect to a modern USB or FireWire input…
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It’s certainly possible that the camera’s firewire port is now malfunctioning. The fact that I was able to use the camera in both device and host mode when it was fresh from the box, and now I can’t use it in either mode, seems to indicate that *something* is wrong now. That said, I can’t remember doing anything out of sequence or inadvertantly pulling power. Given the insecure nature of the firewire connection, I would hope that an accidentally detached firewire cable wouldn’t disable the camera permanently. That would suck.
There is a signal coming from the firewire port — when I plug it into a computer (using ‘device’ mode), the computer will react as if a device has been attached, but nothing will mount on the desktop. I have tried four different late-model G5 computers, but none of them will mount the camera.
Lacking a fix, I’m going to box up this camera and send it back to Panasonic. What a drag.
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And just to be clear: yes, I formatted several hard drives from the camera while it was in ‘host’ mode. I didn’t fret about it, although I wondered how Panasonic was getting around FAT32’s inability to handle files larger than 4GB. I mean, what if you run a continuous take on a P2 card and the file is almost 8GB?
I want to mention this: in my tests, everything was dandy on all takes — five minute takes, five second takes, whatever. And there was plenty of room left on one card.
At the moment, I shot out both cards — filled ’em up — which was gratifying for me. As soon as I saw the cards go full, I switched off the camera, toggled over to tape mode, powered up, and was shooting in DVCPRO50 mode immediately. Maybe 20 seconds of downtime. That was nice!
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Yes indeed, although perhaps I am calling this ‘device’ mode — i.e., connecting the camera to a G5 via the 1394 port. This worked fine several times and on two different computers.
Interestingly, now that it is not working as a 1394 device, it causes weird mounts/dismounts in other devices and occasional hard crashes on the G5. That is, if I try to connect in device mode, the FireWire 800 devices connected to the computer start to blink rapidly, nothing at all happens on the FireWire 400 bus, and eventually the 800 devices dismount. Sometimes they remount automatically. Other times they don’t.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the P2 software that I ‘installed’ on the G5? (The software disk that is packaged with the HVX200.) I put installed in quotes because after I ‘installed’ the software I could never find evidence of installation. No application. No fresh options in Disk Utility. Odd.
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Yes, the functionality is so simple — when it was fresh out of the box, I tested the camera several times in both ‘host’ and ‘device’ mode. It worked beautifully every time — no problems. The menuing — the mode switching — everything seemed clear and simple.
Thus it was difficult to fathom why it would suddenly stop working. I am hoping there is some toggle somewhere — some sub-sub-menu that I have accidentally nudged.
Probably, it worked earlier because I was simply testing it with no skin in the game. Once I actually shot something valuable, it was natural for it to stop working…
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Hmm. I am using Tiger and FCP 4.5 and having no problems with Spotlight slowdowns. I take a drive from home to work and back each day, so I am constantly plugging and replugging a 250 GB LaCie firewire drive…
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yeah, we’re in the process of downgrading from QT7 back to QT6, because of mucho problemas, too many to mention. haven’t read the QT forum yet! jeepers, i have lots to look forward to…
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Heh. I am working on a project where, for the first time ever, I have to utilize offlineRT low-rez clips during the rough edit and then redigitize for the fine cut. So I am just now starting to browse backwards through the Cow for clips just like yours, Bob. Thanks, man!
Master clips, independent clips, subclips. After three-plus years of editing everything at full rez, I never cared about them very much. Now, suddenly, understanding and loving their relationships is my mission in life.
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My simple-dimple system did fine with FCP 4.5 and Tiger. I’ve just installed OS 10.4.1. Still seems fine!