[Miodrag Ristic]

Are you sure that he doesn’t have another external hard drive connected in the same time?
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).

If you really got only one Lacie, try different ports. Ideal solution would be to connect Lacie
to FirWire 800 port and Canon to FireWire 400 port, but I’m not sure that your PowerBook
has one. Some PowerBooks G4 have FW 800.

Let me know if this helps.

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

[Miodrag Ristic]

Thanks Jerry,

I came to the same conclusion after some “googling”.

Mick

[Miodrag Ristic]

Joe,

Resolution for TV screen, or for FCP is only 72 dpi, as for print is at least 300 dpi.
All that extra resolution, extra file size is obsolete in your case.
Resize your images in Photoshop to 720 x 480 (576 for PAL) at resolution of
72 dpi.
In theory we can’t use dpi to measure TV screen resolution, but it’s used here
just to simplify the explanation.
To make sure that this is all correct, you can export any frame from your timeline,
File>Export>Using QuickTime conversion> then choose Stills.
Now open that image in Photoshop and check it’s Image Size,
Image>Resize>Image Size and there you’ll find the size for your FCP frame.
That should be the size of your JPEGs that you need to import.
If you plan to zoom in and pan (Ken Burns effect) then you can make your JPEGs little bit bigger,
i.e. 1000 x 750.

Mio

[Miodrag Ristic]

Do you have another hard drive connected to your Mac?
If yes, then that’s why, Canon and Lacie is the worst possible combination (more due to Canon)
because of their proprietory FireWire.

My FCP doesn’t recognise (slightly different problem from yours) my Canon GL2,
when my 2 Lacie drives are daisy chained.

Try to connect your Lacie HDs to your Mac via different FireWire ports
(i.e. one to FW 800 and other to FW 400).

To completely solve the issue, install another FW in an empty PCI slot,
because no matter how many FW ports you’ve got – they all run through
the same FW card.

Mick