7 Replies Latest reply: May 18, 2011 9:18 AM by Basilio Alferow RSS

    No firewire connection for On Location

    bad Timing Community Member

      Our cameras (NXCAM) have no firewire output. 

       

      Has anyone overcome this problem. 

       

      I thought I read that there was a future change to allow HDMI?

        • 1. Re: No firewire connection for On Location
          Ankush DigiVid Community Member

          Please let us know the following information i.e. which version of OnLocation, is it a laptop or desktop, Do you have any web cam attached on the machine, has it everworked, is not working with any particular device or issue is with all devices, what is the operating system you are using?

          • 2. Re: No firewire connection for On Location
            Mark Mapes Employee Hosts

            For live monitoring and recording, OnLocation works only with FireWire inputs. I'm not at liberty to discuss whether a given feature is under development.

             

            As for how to get live video from a camera with HDMI output into OL, there are hardware devices that take in uncompressed video via one or more types of connections, encode the video, and output the encoded stream via FireWire. Not having worked with any of them, I cannot recommend one specifically--or even remember the make/model for such a device. That said, I'm pretty sure you'll find this kind of thing at Blackmagic Design and AJA.

            • 3. Re: No firewire connection for On Location
              bad Timing Community Member

              Thank you.  That is very helpful.  We will go the converter route.

               

              We moved all our production now to four NX5's so it doesn't look like we will ever be going back to anything with a firewire output.

               

              BTW, now with the HDMI output we are using 26" high def TV's for monitors on all the cameras.  What a huge step up.  There is significantly less need for the vectorscope. 

              • 4. Re: No firewire connection for On Location
                bad Timing Community Member

                Thank you for the input.

                 

                We use a Canopus converter.  It works, but the image quality is poor.  We use it for dimensional data, but beyond that the quality less than usable.

                • 5. Re: No firewire connection for On Location
                  RFDPiper Community Member

                  Is there a way to bypass the need for firewire when neither device has a firewire port?  I bought a new Sony HDR-AX2000 and I would like to use my Asus laptop for OnLocation, but neither have firewire ports.  Both the camera and the laptop have USB as well as HDMI ports.  I was looking into the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/.  Will this work to adapt my camera to OnLocation?  I contaced Blackmagic and they said that OnLocation was "not on their list of supported programs".  Does anyone know from the Adobe end of the equation if this is what I need?  If not, is there anything else out there that might work?  I'm not looking at using OnLocation for capturing so much as I am wanting to use it for it's light-metering capabilities if that makes any difference.

                   

                  Thanks.

                  • 6. Re: No firewire connection for On Location
                    bad Timing Community Member

                    Our Sony NXCAM's also have no firewire. We researched and found no solution.

                    • 7. Re: No firewire connection for On Location
                      Basilio Alferow Community Member

                      For your laptop, you can add a PCMCIA card Firewire port.  Exactly which depends on the laptop's card slot.  I've used both the older PCMCIA and the Express cards successfully with OnLocation.