Re: macbook pro firewire

Thanks, Don.

I'm ordering a bunch of Canon HV30s for our video class. I asked the sales rep (a video prod pro place) about the problems I've had in the past with Canon's and he assured me these problems have been corrected.

It was my understanding, previously, that the problems involved head misalignment and therefore sync issues and a slightly different firewire standard. Thus I needed to use the Canon cams as decks rather than the Sony dsr-11 I was using for everything else-sonys, panas, JVCs. My concern is that the computers they have ordered for this lab are Imacs, which have only one firewire bus and no way to add to it. If what you describe, and I am experiencing with the macbook pro is true, then the only work around would be as you described above making hundreds of captures an extra step.



OSX 10.5.3; MAC PRO 2 X 2.8 GHZ (EARLY 2008); FCP Suite; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170;Canon xl2; Pana consumer cams; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.