Blas Kisic Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I have been using Boom Recorder successfully with my MacBook Pro and a Mackie Onyx 1620i mixer, with the Firewire option. I recently upgraded to 8.5.0 and the MacBook Pro is running Yosemite. I have worked with this setup without a problem, until today. We did several setups without incident until, around 10am, I lost timecode and the software aborted the take. Luckily I was able to switch to my backup recorder, but I lost a couple of takes and, more importantly, production had to wait for us. I restarted and did all the pertinent troubleshooting things and it eventually came back, but it's not reliable, and it cuts off eventually. Timecode comes from a Denecke SB3, feeding track 16. During my troubleshooting I noticed that BR sometimes doesn't recognize the Mackie. I wonder whether I'm missing something that would cause this intermittent problem. I'm on set right now, and will be working on this project (national TV commercial) the rest of the day and tomorrow, and am quite baffled. I would love to resolve this and keep working with BR. Any tips you may have, please feel free to text me at eight-one-eight-640-6268 or email me at blaskisic-at-mac-dot-com. Thanks in advance! BK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Have you checked and swapped out your FW cables? That would be my first move. Check the FW connectors on your computer, drives and the mixer and make sure they haven't gotten distorted. I'd also really lock down the FW cable, make sure it can't get moved at all... I hate firewire... philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blas Kisic Posted February 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Thanks, Philip. I grabbed a bunch of FW cables and will test them tomorrow. I hope you're right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blas Kisic Posted February 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Hey, Philip, that was it! Thanks so much for replying - it's a great relief to know it wasn't anything more serious. I came back to set this morning armed with a dozen cables, and was able to troubleshoot the problem within minutes. Cheers, BK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 But REALLY rig your FW cable so it CANNOT move ANYWHERE along its length while you are hooked up! This is the bane of this sort of recording system--if the FW gets even marginally unpatched or the signal interrupted you will have to do a whole reboot cycle to get everything back! philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blas Kisic Posted February 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Copy, thanks. Unfortunately, my laptop is on a swinging arm which, while I'm recording, doesn't move, but does move the FW cable here and there - so maybe I should switch from a laptop to a Mac Mini… BK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 That or figure a routing for your cable that is anchored all along its length, and really secured where it connects to the computer. Searching out a cable with a right angle connector for the exposed laptop end would be a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blas Kisic Posted February 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Excellent tips, thanks again. BK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark LeBlanc Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 There's the old standby of trashing App preferences.. nl.vosgames.BoomRecorder.plist file in your home Library/Preferences folder Then reset in Preferences which port your timecode is coming from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blas Kisic Posted March 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 There's the old standby of trashing App preferences.. nl.vosgames.BoomRecorder.plist file in your home Library/Preferences folder Then reset in Preferences which port your timecode is coming from Thanks, Mark. Will check that out and report back. In the meantime, I bought a new FW cable and will install it as suggested by Philip, which can't hurt… Cheers, BK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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