quattrofx Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Hi OSX86´s, Soooo, I´ve allways used Vista to Capture Video in .avi format and after that import it into HacMAC for editing. Till Yesterday! I wonted to Capture some homemade Video from Panasonic miniDV Camcorder NV-GS24 via FireWire on my Mac, but ques what? Didn´t worked! Not with IMovie, nor with Premiere or FinalCut saying: capture device not connected! But System Profiler on Mac shows it correct under FireWire up to 400MB! OK. First step was to check all the FireWire Kext´s under system/library/extensions, and compare it with "Aktive" kext´s in System Profiler. Very important kext for Audio-Video Capture was not loaded: IOFireWireAVC.kext !!! I can remember that i used LioNEXT Way to solve the USB Mount Problem with small App called "Lingon". http://lingon.sourceforge.net/ With Lingon we create applescript that loads this kext on start up. It will be placed Under Library/LaunchDaemons. Start Lingon. Choose: New – USERS DAEMONS 1. Call it wherever you wont. ( FireWire Starter) 2. Under „What“ type: kextload -b com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireAVC 3. Under „When“ choose second one: Run it when it is loaded by the system… 4. VERY IMPORTANT! Don´t forget to ACTIVATE „Enabled“ on upper right corner! Save and Reboot! And VOILA!!! It WORKS! I can now capture with all App: Premiere, FinalCut and IMovie! As soon as you connect your Camcorder on Mac, IMovie starts automaticly saying: Capture Device Connected! Unfortenately I can not confirm if this works with ext. FirewireHD, because i don´t have one! If not, use this Procedure to create second script for this kext: IOFireWireSBP2.kext Please, post it here if you have success with it!!! Credits to: LioNEXT, McKack and BoNeS!!! Good Luck! BR QuattroFX Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163309-firewire-problem-solved/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
9w3rty Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 beauty post! Just ran this on a gigabyte ex58 MOB and solved the same issue as well. Funny thing is FW was working before I installed the Adobe line (ps/ai/ae) Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163309-firewire-problem-solved/#findComment-1148922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rio_suck Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 doesn't work for me in ideneb 10.5.5 with Gigabyte Ep45-DS3LR Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163309-firewire-problem-solved/#findComment-1150530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quattrofx Posted May 26, 2009 Author Share Posted May 26, 2009 doesn't work for me in ideneb 10.5.5 with Gigabyte Ep45-DS3LR Try to unload the HPET.kext? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163309-firewire-problem-solved/#findComment-1163599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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