[Michael Noble]

cool, thanks for the information, Creative Cow rules, eat more chicken.

[Michael Noble]

It works better now with deck going directly into the MBP. The other drive is not working with the capture but I have one that works fine and as far as I am concerned the problem is solved and the workflow has given me peace of mind. I love the Cow!

Thank you all for you help!

[Michael Noble]

one drive seems to work and the other seems to not work despite arrangment or settings, however the one that deos not work allows flow through it and also holds other information fine.

[Michael Noble]

The plot thickens…I have FW 400 and I had the camera going into the left side with the express card … through the system out the right side of the MCP 15 inch. It was going into the Lacie Porsche 250 G…in which anyway I set it up, will not hold the capture, “an error occurred during capture” … it will cycle through an entire hour tape and nothing…. until I hit escape or run the tape out, but I of course notice no file of material coming up on the media window during timecode break so I do not wait that long. Here is the interesting part ! The 1st porsche drive works fine and holds information and files from other test… but when I set the other drive that is daisy chained from it (drive 2) as the capture scratch it works fine…so the 1st drive will let material go through it into the other drive but not hold a capture…I mean I can let it go and now I have the 1st drive plugged into the other FW 400 port in the express card next to the camera FW and it now set for wave and thumb files and other drive drive on the right side of the MCP set for capture scratch, but I still cannot sleep well not knowing the problem. My wife thought at supper I was having an affair as I was pondering my drive situation in a daze of wonder…~

Now someone mentioned a setting for the capture as DV/NTSC…this material and settings I am using is HDV 1080 60i 30
easy setup
sequnece matches

You guys are great and I thank you for all the help so far

[Michael Noble]

sorry if someone took something I said as not nice, capture scratch are set for the external drive, settings are matching, I still get the error ” an unknown capture error occured” the deeper I get with this tells me the more simple the problem…

[Michael Noble]

no, unfortunately that causes the capture to drop because the footage has to go the mac drive first and then back to the external and it does this on the same FW cable, thus dropping out, been there done that, but thank you very much.

[Michael Noble]

THANK YOU LEIGH…IT WORKED !!!