[MacDV] Re: LaCie FW 800 and Canon cameras on the same bus. No!

[sb]

I have all of Tom Wolsky's Final Cut books. I find him the most knowledgable
of all the FCP gurus. And, he posts frequently on the FCP discussion forums
to share his knowledge and experience.

I just saw a notice that he now has training DVD's and I'm thinking of
buying them for FCP 5.

http://www.classondemand.net/classondemand/final-cut-training/fcp5.aspx

 regards,

 sb


On 8/10/05 1:57 AM, "Phelim Lunny" <yangzone at aol.com> wrote:

> This probably will not effect many users but anyone trying to capture from a
> Canon camera using a LaCie FW 800 drive (even in FW 400 mode) on a Apple
> iBook or Powerbook could have this problem. Anyone daisy-chaining the two on
> a desktop system might also face this problem.
> 
> I recently got an iMac G5 2GHz to tide me over till the rev b's of the Intel
> G5 desktops. 
> 
> ['Had been using FCP on a 800MHz Powerbook with a FW PC Card for a LaCie FW
> 800 500GB drive (and a Dell 24" Monitor). Also 'had been using another ext
> drive on the FW port with a Canon XM2 (that's a PAL GL1. That's 2 buses: FW
> and PCMCIA.)]
> 
> The iMac gave me a nice 20" screen and just the amount of speed bump to keep
> me happy till '07.
> 
> Anyone who has tried using USB to capture may have noticed that Apple's
> implementation of USB 2.0 is inadequate. So essentially the iMac has one
> (usable) external bus for DV capture: Firewire.
> 
> But I noticed that FCP (and even iChatAV) would not work with the XM2 until
> the LaCie is disconncted. No problem with my other FW drive connected.
> 
> After some amount of searching with no help from LaCie or Canon 'eventually
> found a quote from Tom Wolsky on an apple discussion thread: " LaCie does
> not support the use of Canon cameras connected on one bus."
> 
> Anyway, now I have to capture to the (450GB) iMac internal drive and then
> transfer to the LaCie for editing. Print-to-tape is also a snag later on.
> 
> 
> The apple discussion thread:
> http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@758.nkWWa4n84l4.1@.68b65020/0
> 
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