Is Echo Fire for Macintosh compatible with the Radius/Digital Origin FireWire interface card and SoftDV codec?
Echo Fire is fully compatible with both the Radius/Digital Origin FireWire PCI card and Radius/DO SoftDV codec, although we recommend using the standard Apple DV codec instead. To use Echo Fire with the SoftDV codec, make sure that you’ve disabled the “QuickTime FireWire DV Enabler” extension (standard procedure with this codec), as well as the “~Echo Fire Codec” and “~Echo Fire Codec QT4” files which were installed as part of Echo Fire. Also make sure you’ve enabled “Play Frames Out FireWire (LiveDV)” and “Enable SoftDV as Default DV Codec for QT” in the SoftDV control strip. To use Echo Fire, the Radius/DO FireWire PCI card, and the Apple DV codec, you’ll need to create a separate set of extensions with Extensions Manager and restart to load the correct set. For Echo Fire, you’ll need to re-enable the “QuickTime FireWire DV Enabler”, “~Echo Fire Codec” and “~Echo Fire Codec QT4” extensions, and disable all the Radius/DO extensions, which all start with “Rad”. To use the Radius/DO Fir
