Ted Bragg
January 19th, 2009, 02:55 PM
My Videonics switcher/mixer died -- we have a MacBook with FCP5.1, but I'm not sure if a Mac can handle more than one FW camera at a time. (The MacBook is used elsewhere during the week -- they bring it to the church on Sundays for editing)
Can FCP switch between two FW cams? If possible, I'd like to do the multi-clip setup, and simply click between the wideangle and zoom cams. Only two, no more.
Would I need to get a firewire expansion PCCard? I know daisy-chaining both cameras onto the same FW port won't work -- even when set to 'non-controllable device', FW can only address one camera on the bus (ok, I could be wrong about this, maybe it's been updated, I dunno) but did they make OS X able to address a second FW bus? I've never seen a Mac with more than just one -- two FW 400 ports on one bus, I mean...
We need to switch LIVE, because 1) the Canon XL1s don't support running timecode, and 2) syncing the two cams up in post takes WAY too long, even with a clapboard or pulse.
Can FCP switch between two FW cams? If possible, I'd like to do the multi-clip setup, and simply click between the wideangle and zoom cams. Only two, no more.
Would I need to get a firewire expansion PCCard? I know daisy-chaining both cameras onto the same FW port won't work -- even when set to 'non-controllable device', FW can only address one camera on the bus (ok, I could be wrong about this, maybe it's been updated, I dunno) but did they make OS X able to address a second FW bus? I've never seen a Mac with more than just one -- two FW 400 ports on one bus, I mean...
We need to switch LIVE, because 1) the Canon XL1s don't support running timecode, and 2) syncing the two cams up in post takes WAY too long, even with a clapboard or pulse.