I am running final cut 6.0.5 and all of a sudden it is unable to initialize the hdv deck, however imovie has no problems with it at all. I have tried reseting the preferences but that didn't work
I thought I'd take a stab at this one, given the fact that I was experiencing a similar issue a little earlier today with my iMac and a Panasonic DVX100A camera.
Have you opened System Profiler to confirm whether or not your Mac sees anything connected to its firewire bus? Go to the Apple drop down menu at the top left of your screen>about this mac>more info>firewire. If you see red text indicating that nothing is connected, quit FCP and incorporate a POWERED firewire hub between your deck and your Mac. I use a 6-port Belkin model that's smaller than a pack of cigarettes. Plug in the hub, restart your Mac, then check System Profiler again. This time, it should see your deck. If so, you're on your way... (I'm just assuming that your easy setup preferences are what they need to be in FCP)
The computer is picking up the hdv deck, as i said imovie has no problems importing and controlling the device, i assume it is a setting issue but i can not figure out what, if anything has changed.
FCP sometimes does this with my Sony deck. This works almost every-time for me. Quit FCP. Make sure you deck is on and connected. Start playing a tape. Restart FCP. Open Log and capture. My deck almost always shows up.
--Bob
Hi - I was having precisely the same problem with a PAL digital video cassette camera (DVC) after using a NTSC HD card camera (Canon HF100) - it was teh settings - use easy setup to reset the settings in FCP.
the deck i am using is a sony HVR-M25P the settings i have changed back to how they were set before i deleted them... Maybe they are wrong i cant figure out where though