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 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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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