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TC thru SDI???
Using FCP, we would like to capture video, audio and TC from straight from the HD-SDI connector on an Evertz downconverter on the back of a Sony F-900 HDCAM camera. Or from a deck. The downconverter passes all three.
We are running a MacPro with an HD Extreme card.
Does the BMD card pass the TC and audio?
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7 Replies
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Hello,
I not not tired that with the setup you have, however the Blackmagic should be able to interpret the Timecode data, audio etc. As it’s the same as Digi Beta witht he SDi it all travels down the SDI cable to the Blackmagic. Like a pro version of Firewire where all the data is sent down and record abck correctly.
Thanks,
Leo
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Hi Steve,
I posted this in the FC forum. As I say I think you can get that you want from a Desk, but not directly from the camara:
If you conect your BMDL to a video desk you can get the TC through the RS422 conexion and also inserted in the video signal (VITC. The BMDL allows you to keep this VITC, but I don’t think any shoftware cam make use of it).
In the times of old the TC was generated by the recorder or by an external TC generator. This was recorded in an audio track (LTC) or in the top lines of the image (VITC).
But want you want to do is to reccord the video produced by your camara before being recorded and in this case I don’t think you got any TC available. I’ve been recording video to the CPU from a DVcam directly from de composite video-out, but I can not get any TC in because the one generated by the camcorder is recorded on the tape and only accesible by FireWire. What I meant is that when you have your camara in stand-by its output a video signal but the TC generator it doesn’t works untill you hot REC. I don’t know if the new camaras can work different and output a TC signal when they are in stand-by, and that this TC can go in the SDI out.
salud,
rafael
Sal -
There is a device on the back of the camera that supplies Video, Audio and Time Code through the same cable. Our problem is that FCP does not read the code unless it is controlling a tape deck. This is insane as we have been able to do this for the last 10 years with Discreet Edit* As soon as you tell FCP that there is no deck control, it refuses to read TC. I had just wodered if anyoine had a work around for this. For now, we use a Time Code slate and work the math.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Hi Steve –
I don’t know if this will help you, but there is a device – the Horita TCI-50 – that will insert LTC Time Code into the RS422 stream. It’s about $469, and you can read about this on http://www.horita.com.Writing you from prison –
Bob Zelin -
I wanted this setup as well, and it turned out that FCP was not able to do it. But the Decklink Deck Control app is doing fine. We used a HD camera connected to a HD-CAM SR deck (free run timecode). Capturing was done through through DL Deck Control and footage imported into FCP with timecode. There was an issue however with software version 5.6 (if I remember right), this should have been resolved in version 5.7.3. I have not been able to check this yet.
A real advantage of this setup is: you don’t need downconvertors, you can either capture uncompressed if your disks allow this or capture in DVCproHD codec on the fly.
Rob Das
Filmgarage—-
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I don’t know if this helps, but I’ve been able to get VITC from a DL HDPro from a signal fed by a telecine. Over SD-SDI. RS-422 was not connected. I had to make a setup where the deck was non controllable and the timecode source was set for VITC. I could confirm that I was getting time code because we had set up the feed to have burn-in TC as well via an Aaton keylink.
So VITC from Decklink works.
Neil
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Hi
not in FCP but BMD deck controll reads the timecode from SDI fine – at least from HDW-750
-Kaspar
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