joeloud
Active member
Hi, this'll be my first post here, so I hate to have to ask a long-winded question...
I just got an HVX (like, yesterday), and I've been playing a little bit, but now I'm trying to get the footage off the P2 onto my Mac Pro. I really didn't expect there to be a problem here; I figured I'd install a driver, connect the camera with a FireWire cable and I could just move the files to the computer, no problem. It's not doing that at all. In fact, I can't figure out why it's doing absolutely nothing.
I installed the P2 drivers (the recent ones, released 1-29-2008), and it didn't appear to do anything. When I first hooked up the camera, and put it into 1394 Host mode, it recognized the HVX and didn't recognize the P2 card (it said "Unknown Device"), but after installing the drivers, it still says "Unknown Device." I tried installing the old drivers because I thought perhaps this was an issue with Tiger, since I haven't installed Leopard on this machine just yet. It won't even let me install the old drivers; it just says "there is nothing to install" whenever I try to.
I don't have a P2 Store, and that seems to be all the information I can find (about people having problems with a P2 Store, not with connecting the camera directly to the computer). I'm not even sure if I'm looking at the right place in the manual, because it's telling me to format a hard drive to do it. That doesn't sound right at all, because I distinctly remember being able to do everything in OS X, and not have to format anything, but I can't seem to find any information about how to set this seemingly simple thing up. (I'm looking at pages 85-86 in the manual; should I be looking somewhere else?)
I used one of these in my Documentary class, but we checked out P2 Stores with the cameras, and when I connected that, I was able to capture footage directly into FCP. Now, nothing seems to be working the way it did before, and the only differences I can see is that I'm not using a P2 Store, and that I have a Mac Pro, which is Intel, while they had G5s (I think) in Doc class, which obviously were PPC.
Does anyone know a quick resource online or a page number in the manual or "The HVX Book" about what the setup should look like for transferring these files directly from the P2 card, through the camera to my HD.
Thanks in advance!
Update: I just found the P2 workflow section. I didn't even realize it was there before, but I did search and kept coming up with stuff specifically pertaining to problems with the P2 Store, not what I'm trying to do... I'll go over that and see if it works. Sorry... kind of a noob to this.
I just got an HVX (like, yesterday), and I've been playing a little bit, but now I'm trying to get the footage off the P2 onto my Mac Pro. I really didn't expect there to be a problem here; I figured I'd install a driver, connect the camera with a FireWire cable and I could just move the files to the computer, no problem. It's not doing that at all. In fact, I can't figure out why it's doing absolutely nothing.
I installed the P2 drivers (the recent ones, released 1-29-2008), and it didn't appear to do anything. When I first hooked up the camera, and put it into 1394 Host mode, it recognized the HVX and didn't recognize the P2 card (it said "Unknown Device"), but after installing the drivers, it still says "Unknown Device." I tried installing the old drivers because I thought perhaps this was an issue with Tiger, since I haven't installed Leopard on this machine just yet. It won't even let me install the old drivers; it just says "there is nothing to install" whenever I try to.
I don't have a P2 Store, and that seems to be all the information I can find (about people having problems with a P2 Store, not with connecting the camera directly to the computer). I'm not even sure if I'm looking at the right place in the manual, because it's telling me to format a hard drive to do it. That doesn't sound right at all, because I distinctly remember being able to do everything in OS X, and not have to format anything, but I can't seem to find any information about how to set this seemingly simple thing up. (I'm looking at pages 85-86 in the manual; should I be looking somewhere else?)
I used one of these in my Documentary class, but we checked out P2 Stores with the cameras, and when I connected that, I was able to capture footage directly into FCP. Now, nothing seems to be working the way it did before, and the only differences I can see is that I'm not using a P2 Store, and that I have a Mac Pro, which is Intel, while they had G5s (I think) in Doc class, which obviously were PPC.
Does anyone know a quick resource online or a page number in the manual or "The HVX Book" about what the setup should look like for transferring these files directly from the P2 card, through the camera to my HD.
Thanks in advance!
Update: I just found the P2 workflow section. I didn't even realize it was there before, but I did search and kept coming up with stuff specifically pertaining to problems with the P2 Store, not what I'm trying to do... I'll go over that and see if it works. Sorry... kind of a noob to this.
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