• Avid Media Composer

  Avid Won’t Recognize BETA deck

  Posted by Rory Keenan on June 24, 2010 at 10:14 pm

  I’m working with a documentary film director.
  He wants about 70 old BETA SP tapes saved as Quicktimes for archiving.

  He has a Mac Platform with an older Avid (Adreneline, Media Composer 3)

  His system was wired by an engineer about 18 months ago and there has been little or no capturing from tape since then (mostly importing P2 footage).
  He has several sources of input (BETA, DV, HD Tape etc.)
  They all run through a patch-bay then out to the Adreneline Box.
  The Audio runs through a mixer then out to the Adreneline with an XLR.

  I can’t get the Capture tool to recognize the BETA deck.
  I’d even be willing to Capture on the fly (without logging clips) if I had to… but it won’t recognize a video signal.

  In the Capture tool I select:
  Video: Component & Audio: XLR

  The Video Input tool is on Component.

  In Deck Configuration I select:
  Sony PVW-2800
  Port- I’ve tried both Key Serial 1 and USA28Xfd51P2.2…. (both of them on “Direct”).

  I checked to make sure buttons on the patch-bay were correct.

  I also tried Autoconfigure…… it still says “No Deck”.
  What’s interesting is that the first time I tried Autoconfigure the DV deck was accidently left powered on (Sony DSR-60).
  The Autoconfigure recognized the DV deck (eventhough I had the patch bay set to the BETA)
  I’ve tried Autoconfigure with the patch-bay set to different deck inputs.

  Any Suggestions???

  Nadim Shartouny replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Nadim Shartouny

  June 24, 2010 at 11:23 pm

  Try bypassing the patch and connect the remote serial cable from the deck to the computer directly

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