Mixing FW400 and FW800?

What do you mean by 'kicked out'?

Don't you have both Firewire 400 and 800 ports?

--ken

Canon devices are notorious for not playing nice when having to share a Firewire bus. And yes, All Macs with Firewire have just one bus regardless of the number of ports they have from the factory.

Your best bet is to:
A: Use a non-Canon device for capturing.

B: If you must use a Canon device for capturing, try daisy-chaining it through one Firewire drive and make sure that that one drive is the ONLY Firewire device connected directly to your Mac.

C: Disconnect all Firewire devices, then connect the Canon device. Capture to your boot drive, then shut down and disconnect the camera. Reconnect your Firewire drives, boot up your Mac, then transfer the captured files to one of the Firewire drives. Launch FCP and reconnect the media from its new location.

-DH

Hi Trig,

David is right about Canon. His suggestion to capturing to your boot drive and then transferring over to your scratch drive is probably the best way to go.

--ken

Thanks guys, and that is what I did. Also tried plugging the camera into the ext. hard drive, but that didn't work.

I'm just glad I don't have to deal with tapes any more.

Hi Ken,

Would adding a card (USB-2/FW-800) to a to a Mac Pro, Connect to another Buss, Or is there only 1 Buss total that everything connects to?

I bought the card from OWC to get more inputs, Also thinking I was connecting to an unused FW, USB Buss. (Seems to work Fine)

Mahalo, John

Hi John,

Correct, adding a USB2/FW PCI card to your MacPro does add a FW buss, so you would have two separate and discrete FW busses.

Good way to go.

--ken

Thanks Ken,

Mahalo, John