ashr
10-05-2007, 10:25 PM
Hi all, I'm a long time lurker on these forums. The company I work for just bought me an HVX202 2 days back so I'll be posting regularly from now on :) This sure is a nice site you guys have here.
Anyway, We're very pleased with the purchase so far. There's a pretty noticeable difference between HVX footage and that of our previous camera, the DVX102. I'm from India so the cameras are PAL.
The only problem I'm having so far is when I try to connect the HVX to the iMac through Firewire with the camera set to PC mode. I don't see the P2 card mounting up on the desktop. I'd say I'm quite tech savvy so I do know about the required drivers and stuff : all installed.
The problem is not with the 16gb P2 card as it gets recognized by the camera and I can shoot fine with it. There's no issue with the firewire port or cable either as the computer recognizes the camera and I can capture MiniDV tapes fine. Finally, the OS itself does not have any trouble with detecting the P2 card. Like I said, the drivers are installed but here is the really weird thing. Almost everything I've read on this site about connecting the camera to a Mac for mounting P2 cards talks about using Firewire and NOT USB 2. However, when I connect my camera to my Mac over USB, the card mounts fine. I can drag clips to the hard disk or capture through Log and Transfer in FCP. Host Mode from Camera to Hard Disk works through Firewire as well.
While I can live with this for the time being, I've read that USB transfer does not even work on Macs and is strictly Windows only. What I'm experiencing says otherwise. Would anyone know if I would have any trouble using USB on the Mac instead of Firewire? I'm aware that USB 2 doesn't have the practical performance of Firewire but for now, I just can't get my P2 card to mount through FW. I might have missed something. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this?
I'm sorry if the post is rather long but I just wanted to mention all the details. To summarize:
1. Firmware version on Camera is the latest. Drivers for the Mac are the latest ones off the Panny website.
2. P2 card is recognized by Camera and Mac when connecting over USB.
3. Host Mode : Direct transfer from Camera to Firewire Hard Disk works.
4. No trouble with firewire cables or the port itself. The camera is recognized and MiniDV tape capture is possible.
5. The only thing NOT working is the mounting of the P2 card on the desktop when connecting the camera over Firewire.
6. Other Firewire Hard disks are recognized by the Mac as well.
7. iMac 2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs of RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.10. Camera is PAL version.
When I connect the camera to the Mac using Firewire, I get 1394 disconnect on the camera LCD. When i connect using USB, i get USB disconnect for a second which changes to USB connect and the card is mounted on the desktop.
Thanks in advance. Hope someone can shed some light on this.
Anyway, We're very pleased with the purchase so far. There's a pretty noticeable difference between HVX footage and that of our previous camera, the DVX102. I'm from India so the cameras are PAL.
The only problem I'm having so far is when I try to connect the HVX to the iMac through Firewire with the camera set to PC mode. I don't see the P2 card mounting up on the desktop. I'd say I'm quite tech savvy so I do know about the required drivers and stuff : all installed.
The problem is not with the 16gb P2 card as it gets recognized by the camera and I can shoot fine with it. There's no issue with the firewire port or cable either as the computer recognizes the camera and I can capture MiniDV tapes fine. Finally, the OS itself does not have any trouble with detecting the P2 card. Like I said, the drivers are installed but here is the really weird thing. Almost everything I've read on this site about connecting the camera to a Mac for mounting P2 cards talks about using Firewire and NOT USB 2. However, when I connect my camera to my Mac over USB, the card mounts fine. I can drag clips to the hard disk or capture through Log and Transfer in FCP. Host Mode from Camera to Hard Disk works through Firewire as well.
While I can live with this for the time being, I've read that USB transfer does not even work on Macs and is strictly Windows only. What I'm experiencing says otherwise. Would anyone know if I would have any trouble using USB on the Mac instead of Firewire? I'm aware that USB 2 doesn't have the practical performance of Firewire but for now, I just can't get my P2 card to mount through FW. I might have missed something. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this?
I'm sorry if the post is rather long but I just wanted to mention all the details. To summarize:
1. Firmware version on Camera is the latest. Drivers for the Mac are the latest ones off the Panny website.
2. P2 card is recognized by Camera and Mac when connecting over USB.
3. Host Mode : Direct transfer from Camera to Firewire Hard Disk works.
4. No trouble with firewire cables or the port itself. The camera is recognized and MiniDV tape capture is possible.
5. The only thing NOT working is the mounting of the P2 card on the desktop when connecting the camera over Firewire.
6. Other Firewire Hard disks are recognized by the Mac as well.
7. iMac 2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs of RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.10. Camera is PAL version.
When I connect the camera to the Mac using Firewire, I get 1394 disconnect on the camera LCD. When i connect using USB, i get USB disconnect for a second which changes to USB connect and the card is mounted on the desktop.
Thanks in advance. Hope someone can shed some light on this.