derekmok Wrote:
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> What Mike said. Also, are you using a FireWire
> drive at the same time? Are you daisy-chaining
> the camera to the drive?
>
> If you have any other FireWire devices -- mixers,
> drives, anything -- hooked up at the same time,
> try taking them out.
Thanks to you both--my problem has disappeared after a very distressing episode where the Finder froze, and wouldn't start again after re-launching. One of my firewire drives (the Cam has its own separate port, BTW) was making an unnatural whine so I went to unmount it, and the act of selecting it in the Finder froze the Finder. Re-launching Finder didn't work. You can't restart without use of the Finder. I did a hard re-boot into safe mode, restarted again normally, and (having powered off the whiny FW drive) started FCP with full use of my cam.
This would seem all tidy except for the fact, I wasn't using the whiny FW drive when this all started.
Well, good to be back up, I guess this issue will remain partially mysterious.