HVX200 P2 and G4 laptop/external HD problems.

[David M. Payne]

I'm still getting glitches recording to my hard drive with the HVX200 connected to an old/new G4 15" laptop 1.5g of Ram 1.67g processor and FCP 5.0.4. using a Lacie FW 800 PC card from the camera connected to the laptop. I'm recording 720/24p and sometimes it stops recognizing the camera between shots. Then I have to shut down everything, boot it all back up and it is usually OK, for a while. Also when we record to the P2 cards (720/24pn) sometimes it won't recognize the cards when I download them to the laptop to a Maxtor firewire 300g 7200 drive. When we start shooting for real we will be using OWC Dual-Drive RAID FW800 500g HD's, but we are using the Maxtor for practice right now.

I did update the drivers today for the P2 cards using Shane Ross's link to the software on the forum here, so perhaps that will help with the P2 cards. http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bi...low/index.html

I followed Robert Lanes guide for hooking up the camera to the computer but there are still problems that I'd like to eliminate if I can. I bought the VAAST DVD by Gary Adcock but it isn't much help. I know that Barry Green is coming out with his book/CD/DVD? (Hurry Barry!) Sometime soon, but we start shooting for real on 6-6-06 and I need things to go more smoothly than they are going right now. . (I hope with that date that the devil isn't in the details on this one. : D) any links, help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

David

[Robert Lane]

David,

Send me a PM and we'll exchange phone numbers. There's too many possible points of failure and things to check and it would be difficult to do it back and forth on the forum.

[David M. Payne]

Originally Posted by Robert Lane

David,

Send me a PM and we'll exchange phone numbers. There's too many possible points of failure and things to check and it would be difficult to do it back and forth on the forum.

Thanks Robert.

David