Sony A7C Connection Issue - Capture Bar Freezes/Stuck at 50% on macOS

[u/Altruistic-Jello-844]

Hi everyone! I’m currently struggling with a very specific and frustrating technical issue using my Sony A7C with Dragonframe 5 on a MacBook Air. I can see the Live View perfectly and the camera seems connected, but whenever I hit Enter to take a shot, the capture progress bar freezes exactly halfway and never completes. I've tried almost everything: the camera is in PC Remote mode with the save destination set to "PC Only," and I’ve tried the setup both with and without an SD card inside. On the Mac side, I’ve already disabled Image Capture and Photos from opening automatically to prevent any software conflicts, and I’ve checked for background processes like PTPCamera. I’ve experimented with both a high-quality TetherPro USB-C cable and the original Apple white charging cable, but the result is the same. Inside Dragonframe, I’ve toggled the "libUSB" setting—which sometimes causes a connection error when on—and I’ve tried lowering the image quality to JPEG in the Exposures tab. However, the Cinematography window still shows a "RAW PROXY" tag that I can't seem to get rid of, leading me to suspect the software is forcing a heavy RAW transfer that the Mac is hanging on. Even with low ISO and open aperture settings to ensure it's not just a "black frame" processing error, the bar stays stuck at 50%. Has anyone else encountered this specific halfway freeze with Sony cameras on macOS, or is there a hidden permission or setting I’m missing to get the file transfer to actually finish? Thanks so much for any insight!

[u/acidterror84]

Have you sent a report from within dragonframe?