Ryan Atkins
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David,
Going off of what Zane mentioned about the Sil132 driver, is the Firmtek compatible with the latest version of Leopard 10.5.5? Really, this card would be no better than the Rosewill RC-605 if it has not worked with these latest updates. I don’t know if any other users have updated their Macs running Leopard to 10.5.5.
Knowing the 10.5.5 update is relatively new, you’d think that there are cards whos drivers are compatible with this…
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Is there such a card manufactured that runs perfect on any version of Leopard? I read that the RC-605 runs great on 10.5.1 and has a driver included on a CD as well as Rosewills website.
I was getting very inconsistent data transfers and ended up resulting back to my firewire connection, which transferred my 40 GB of data in about 20 minutes. I can live with that, not an hour…
Any suggestions for eSata, other than the Firmtek?
Unlike Windows operating systems, Mac OS X seems to update their software much more frequently, so I can see why the driver wouldn’t work…but I’m not going to downgrade to 10.5.1 just to use the eSata cards.
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I use the exact same camera, but FCP 6, not sure what version you are using. Anyway, the camera cab be a little weird I guess. siny has this feature called iLink. iLink basically for the camera to convert HDV into DV, without you having to do it. So, if you are in HDV mode and iLink turned on, you are saying that you want your HDV footage to be converted into DV footage, so FCP will look for a D signal, not HDV.
I’ve had this problem many times.
So, make sure your camera is in HDV mode for the VCR, and make sure iLink is turned off.
For getting a good picture, I’m not sure yet. I’m still playing around with settings on capturing and getting the getting the best image possible.
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Have you encountered or heard of any issues with using the ExpressCard 34 cards in a MacBook Pro?
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Very well then. Sata it is.
Thanks
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Well, your correct. I meant to add in that my camera to computer connection is Firewire, but I have both eSata and Firewire available on my external. I wasn’t sure which method was best for going computer to external hard drive, if any.
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What everyone else has said about needing a 7200 rpm internal and such is all true. I actually use the 15 in MacBook Pro, 2nd gen with the Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz and the 8600 GT video card. FCP runs flawlessly. Really, Apple has built their laptops to run like a desktop. I’d say your just fine. Just make sure you get the right accessories for editing and such.
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Well hey, thanks for your help anyway.
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Well, it was weird. I had initially selected all the clips at once that I wanted to apply the SmoothCam to, and once it was all applied the video looked terrible. But, when I selected them individually it worked just fine. Not sure if I selected too much or what.
As for the codec I’m actually not sure. I did capture standard DV Animorphic.
BTW, the glitching appeared a few other times through my process, but a restart of FCP did work.
I’m not really sure what was going on, but it seems to be functioning good now.
Thanks
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Ok, thank you very much