[Miodrag Ristic]

Brian,

What’s your set up, which Mac, OS, hard drives?
What is your deck / camera you are importing from?
More details please, we might find the culprit in your set up,
or firewire incompatibilities of your periferals.

Mick
Digital Video Vault

[Miodrag Ristic]

Hi Herb,

Probably the most elegant solution for you would be a FireStore FS-100 from Focus Enhancements,
an external hard drive designed specifically with P2 on their mind.

https://www.focusinfo.com/dynassets/documents/downloads/fs100_finalcutpro5-1_workflow_v2.1.pdf

If all you need is to ingest, then this one is for you.

Mick Ristic
Digital Video Vault

[Miodrag Ristic]

Hi Guys,

HDV is not a big problem any more for FCP, you can read more about it Jerry Hofman’s article in latest Cow’s Magazine (free download) page 17.
Beside that, FireStore have recently updated their line of DTE recorders (record to an external hard drive and forget capture),
now there is an HDV version.

https://www.focusinfo.com/company/article.asp?id=160138

When you add Matrox MXO to the mix – you’ve got a complete solution for HDV and more.

Cheers

Mick
Geelong

[Miodrag Ristic]

Hi Edit Girl,

Glad that you solved your problem, partially,
but I still believe that you van get Canon to work as well with importing.

Never said that cables are wrong. I’ve read your original post again:

Don’t plug the Canon into drive (external drive?).

Plug your Lacie into your Mac using FW 800 ports/cables.
Plug your Canon to your Mac’s FW 400 port
and try agin.

That should work.

Mick

[Miodrag Ristic]

When we already touched it, how can I use those HD video clips (computer generated)
in my PAL DV workflow / timeline?

For example I’ve just got a set of royaltee free video in HD, from a magazine.
The format Photo – JPEG, 1280 x 720, Millions
Movie FPS: 30

Do I convert them in FCP, Export > QT Conversion …
or something else?

Thanks

Mick

[Miodrag Ristic]

Yes, 2 GL2s, try someones camera, other than Canon,
and buy something cheap just for import.

I didn’t need to, I just switch of my other ext Lacie
when importing. The other one is now just a stoarge,
when needed I just transfer from “storage” drive
to “media” and start editing.

FYI, I’m using a FS-4 hard drive for recording directly
to a hard drive, so I don’t import much from a tape anyway (30 %).

Did you plug one in FW 800 port and other in FW 400 port?
Try that before you buy.

Cheers

Mick

[Miodrag Ristic]

That’s right Shifter,
I bet you are importing from a Canon camera?

It seems to be that you have 2 different external hard drives (probably LaCie) connected
at the same time or daisy chained.
If they were daisy chained, connect each hard drive into different firewire port, preferably
one (Lacie) to FW 800, other into FW 400 and then your FCP will recognise your Canon (I’ve got 2 BTW).

Even If you disconnect one external drive and work with just one on,
you won’t have problems. It’s a Lacie / Canon FireWire issue, not FCP.

Let me know if this helps.

Cheers

Mick
http://www.digitalvideovault.com.au

[Miodrag Ristic]

Rafael,

Yes, that’s make sense.

Thanks

Mick

[Miodrag Ristic]

Hi Rafael,

I work with DV, Canon XM2, does that mean that I should
De – Interlace those clips if using with my regular DV PAL 25fps?

Thanks for clearing this one up for me.

Salute

Mio

[Miodrag Ristic]

What about recording / transferring your footage from Canon to Firestore’s FS – 4 HD,
and then from FS-4 HD just dump it onto your hard drive.
I don’t know about the timeline settings for 24f, but at least you’ve
got your footage in without the capture / sync problems.

Mick
Digital Video Vault