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Anyone here with ONBOARD GMA 950 confirm FIREWIRE Capture works or PCI Card?


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I know the intel board has onboard firewire, but my sound is firewire and wondering if anyone has tried PCI FIREWIRE CAPTURE cards, and if so , what cards and what motherboards?

 

I searched the HCL for 10.4.5 and didn't find much about it.

 

Sort of funny I guess, most MAC users are very saavy to video, whereas the OSX86 folk, messing around, wonder if they have tried a video camera yet?

 

My Intel FW works fine, but I use it for Mackie audio....

 

Thinking about getting a ASUS board so I can overclock and it DOES NOT have FW, so wondering how these people are doing any editing at all!

 

Thanks!!

 

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I have two VIA chip based FW PCI cards working in two totally different flavors of hackintoshes. The intel based one has a GMA 900 on the 915G chipset and it capped DV from the PCI firewire in DVD studio pro right off the bat...didn't have to change anything, no dropped frames at all, audio intact etc...more than I can say for my experience capping in XP, always have to tweak the OS out first.

 

I only capped that once, but it was a full hour long, so I trust it's stability for it.

 

Oh yeah, it worked great as a live dv source as well for fun stuff like Arkaos...of course, Arkaos being PPC based still, and me having a lowly gma900, more than 2 video layers in Arkaos pretty much drops 28 out of 29 frames...different ball of wax completely there though.

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If the FW controller is OHCI compliant should work without problems........... I've tried with FW port on a Audigy PCI (OHCI compliant) and with a PCI card no brand and both of them worked perfectly.

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If the FW controller is OHCI compliant should work without problems........... I've tried with FW port on a Audigy PCI (OHCI compliant) and with a PCI card no brand and both of them worked perfectly.

 

I just put my old Audigy PCI (the original Audigy cca 2001) card in my computer and it doesn't seem to be recognized. I don't have any FireWire devices at the moment to test with, but I don't see any FireWire extensions loaded. What version of OSX did you use Audigy Firewire with?

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Heh, I can *sort of* confirm it, but I'm on real Apple hardware-I assure you, the GMA 950 handles FireWire fine in iMovie *and* Final Cut Express.

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Hi

 

I am using macosx 10.4.9 & Final Cut Studio 2 to capture and edit video, my firewire port is reconized and appers in the system profile, but when I connect my Sony 2100 & 170 DVCpro, the system profile says "unknow device" and nothing happens, and Cam Not Detect in MacOS.

 

Why doesn´t work?

 

Is there any with the same problem?

 

Please help..

 

My System specs are is

 

Pentium D 2.8Ghz CPU

Asus P5GZMX motherboard

1 GB DDR2 RAM

120 GB PATA HDD

Realtek 883 chipset Onboard Sound

Marvell Yukon Onboard Ethernet

Via Chipset FIREWIRE PCI Card

 

All hardware work perfectly in MACOSX 10.4.9 but without Capturing I dont do anything in Editing in FCP6.

 

please help me................

please help..............

Please............

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Hi

 

I am using macosx 10.4.9 & Final Cut Studio 2 to capture and edit video, my firewire port is reconized and appers in the system profile, but when I connect my Sony 2100 & 170 DVCpro, the system profile says "unknow device" and nothing happens, and Cam Not Detect in MacOS.

 

Why doesn´t work?

 

Is there any with the same problem?

 

Please help..

 

My System specs are is

 

Pentium D 2.8Ghz CPU

Asus P5GZMX motherboard

1 GB DDR2 RAM

120 GB PATA HDD

Realtek 883 chipset Onboard Sound

Marvell Yukon Onboard Ethernet

Via Chipset FIREWIRE PCI Card

 

All hardware work perfectly in MACOSX 10.4.9 but without Capturing I dont do anything in Editing in FCP6.

 

please help me................

please help..............

Please............

 

I get a similar problem with some camcoders, usually one of the following works:

a)turn the cam on and off

b)manually select the capture device

c)select a generic device

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