Tom Deangelis
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It gets even more interesting… or confusing. I ejected the LaCie on the iMAC system that is attached to the DSR 40 Dvcam deck. Like yours, it all worked fine. Terrific
Ejected the LaCie from the TOWER attached to the HVR-M25u: nothing doing. It now dropped down to an external Western Digital that’s on the chain.
I ejected that WD, and the keys will seek but not show an image. The search controls on the capture screen are still grayed out.
I swapped out a new firewire cable. Nothing I swapped the 25u as a source for a Sony V1u that I also shoot with: Nothing.
And I did download the ProApps Codecs so that wasn’t the problem.
A few other things to try, but everything did work just fine before the upgrade so I’m getting suspicious about there being a bug that Apple may need to address. -
Very curious. I’m running exactly the same OS and FCPX versions: also with an early 2009 MAC…and also with a 2011 27″ iMAC. On each system I use a LaCie for my Time Machine backups. And as you’ve seen with your system, each of my machines drop to the LaCie in the capture window as soon as I hit the L or J keys. Before I go ahead and download the Pro Apps Quicktime Codecs, I’m going to eject the LaCie drives and see if that ends up being the fix. That will take that 1 step out of the equation and more definitively isolate the LaCie. Very strange. I’ll let you know what I find out.
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Thanks for the tip, Gary. I’ll give it a try and let you know. In the meantime, let me know if you are experiencing the same issues with ingesting from your tape decks. I did try ingesting with FCP7 and the keys work just fine which leads me further to believe that this is part of the 10.1 upgrade problem.
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Hi Gary,
You seem to be one of the few of us left who still shoot and capture at times on tape. I , too, am shooting the Z5u and have been working with FCPX since it was released. I’ve had no issues with capture until the recent upgrade to 10.1
Since the 10.1 upgrade I have lost all search control of my tape decks: a Sony HVR M25U for HDV and a DsR-40 for SD DvCam. The “j” and “L” keys no longer control the decks and the search controls on the import screen are “grayed out”.
I purchased new generation Bella keyboards and connected Apple’s own keyboard; all to no avail.
Support at Bella has suggested that Apple changed the shortcuts in updating to 10.1. I hoped 10.1.1 would address this problem but it has not. Have you experienced this and if so, have you discovered a fix for it? -
Since the 10.1 upgrade I have lost all search control of my tape decks: a Sony HVR M25U for HDV and a DsR-40 for SD DvCam. The “j” and “L” keys no longer control the decks and the search controls on the import screen are “grayed out”.
I purchased new generation Bella keyboards and connected Apple’s own keyboard; all to no avail.
Support at Bella has suggested that Apple changed the shortcuts in updating to 10.1. I hoped 10.1.1 would address this problem but it has not.
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Does anyone have a real solution?
I’m trying to capture extended clips in order to make full use of the multi-clip editing feature in FCP.
It’s bad enough getting “timecode break” messages and having to match frame edits from a single cam, but when I’m trying to cut long shows using 2 or more synced cams; these timecode breaks are a disaster.
I’m trying to capture 1080i HDV from a Sony HVR-M25u feed deck. I’m ingesting this down an HDMI cable thru a Matrox MX02 box.
The drive is a 1TB G-Raid
The MAC is a 2 x3 GHz quad core with 4 gig of ram and we’re running the Snow Leopard OS
I thought initally this issue was an HDV capture issue and/or a Matrox throughput issue, but I and my colleagues are having the same problems capturing SD simple 720×486 DVcam down a simple firewire connection.
I’ve even tried rs 422 control taking in component video from a UVW1800 Betacam Sp deck…….still getting timecode breaks.
Anyone having any luck solving this or is this just an FCP bug that we need to wait for Apple to address?