Russ Haskell
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For DV and HDV editing, I’ve had 5400 drives that worked fine…and I’ve had 7200 drives that were really problematic. There seem to be a lot of variations in QC among different brands.
People seem have favorite manufactures and those that they advise others to avoid like the plague – perhaps in part just reflecting luck of the draw.
For my part, I’d not be inclined to vouch for the reliability of anyone’s brand, but I might suggest that you take into account the quality of their support response. I have, for example, found OWC extremely responsive and competent. At the other end of the spectrum, I have found G-Tech to be very unresponsive.
Your milage may vary. Good luck.
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Your settings seem OK. Using the same Canopus box, I recently digitized a lot of S-VHS footage with those settings and the same version of FCP. As noted earlier, FCP should see the Canopus with the capture tab set to FW. When it’s set to non controllable device, it should indicate no connection. Manually starting the VCR and then choosing capture now, hopefully you’ll be good to go.