(missing) firewire

u unhooked everything and moved stuff around and hooked it up the same. but now it says that my firewire device is missing. and it's hooked up, help. it says missing apple fire wire. i just installed a couple of days ago. TIGER could that be the problem?
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This happened in 2 edit suites. I fixed it in edit 1 by resetting PRAM and trashing prefs. Edit 2 won't see it.
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Yet, when I go to View/Video Output, it's not even an option. I don't even get the [Missing] Firewire NTSC 720 x 480 option. It's just not there. I have all the AJA options, but not the FIrewire ones. Anyone seen this disappear like that?
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Checked all of the settings on the deck several times
Changed Firewire cable twice
WOndering if this is an AJA conflict, but it works now in the other edit suite, which is a clone of this one. Weird and frustrating.
Haven't tried setting up a new user yet, gonna try that now. If you have a clue, please clue me in…

All the settings were exactly the same. I changed nothing. It was a weird experience, but on a whim I decided to simply swap the decks in the rooms, wondering if there was some corrupt communication from the decks via the Firewire. Seems that was the case, because once I switched rooms, everything worked. Glad it worked out, because I was about to send the decks in for repair, having tested the ports, the Firewire cables, and FCP, and all came out working fine. Can't explain it, but it works.
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Missing firewire ntsc

I have two different macs and they have both started saying “Missing Apple Firewire NTSC” both in the Audio/Video settings and also when I try to Log and Capture in FCP.
I’ve also switched out firewire cables/ports, etc.
My versions are:
FCP 5.1.4 with QT 7.6.4 on OS 10.4.11
FCP 5.0.4 with QT 7.6.2 on OS 10.4.11
I just can't see how it would be hardware with 2 different machines at the same time.

Did you recently update QT, just prior to this behavior?
FCP5.1.4 works best with QT 7.1 or 7.2.
Here's a link to Jon Chappell's Digital Rebellion blog, which lists these compatibilities...
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/cats/28/index2.html
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Firewire missing

Hello everybody,
I'm a new Mac and FCP user, i have my new mac for about 2 weeks now and very happy with it( it's another world) but i have some problems on FCP capturing footage from my Canon XM2 pal camera, on log and capture when i set everything up to capture i get ' no connection' and when i try too change mine audio/video setup 'video playback' says: (missing)firewire pal 720x576. Some help.....
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greetings

That's the disadvantage of the iMac -it can't be expanded.
You didn't mention if you are trying to capture to an external drive or the internal.
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dazz,
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FCP HD wont capture from firewire after updating OS

Hi,
There is a similar thread to this running, but it doesn't seem to be the exact same problem so I don't want to confuse issues.
I have been using FCP HD for years now, with the same kit and without doing any updates. I have recently had problems with DVD Studio Pro and decided to connect the Mac upto the net and download any usefull updates. Since updating to the latest version of Panther I seem to be having problems with FCP capturing using the firewire.
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I also found it a little odd that this would happen straight after I have updated Panther
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Cheers

Often in upgrading the OS, QT or FCP for some odd reason QT will get knocked slightly off kilter. The usual solution it to force a full reinstall of QT.
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Run the Quicktime installer.
Reboot
Repair Disk Permissions for your System Disk (Disk Utility > Select the system disk > Repair Disk Permissions)
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AWOL FireWire Bus can cause performance problems

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See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88338 for information. I was able to fix my performance problems by disconnecting my iMac from power and everything except mouse and keyboard.
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Yup, resetting the NVRAM seems to fix a lot of
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Did Santa forget the FireWire?

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Hi Emma:
Welcome to discussions and Merry Christmas!
Santa didn't forget the firewire..Sony did. It seems no camera comes with one, yet one is necessary to import DV into your mac.
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