• AJA Video Systems

  DVC Pro VTR and Insert edit

  Posted by Chris Tompkins on July 7, 2005 at 8:18 pm

  I have a DVC Pro VTR AJ-D650 – been a work-horse. Using the AJA IO LA I have a RS-422 cable connected and the deck works fine for capture. I have machine control with FCP. Capture is fine, Batch capture is fine. I have the device control set to Panasonic Rs-422.
  When it comes to “Insert Edit” it is not available. I have tried changing settings within the deck setup menu and to no avail. When I switch the cables to the Beta deck (1800) insert edit becomes available and works fine. Has anyone gotton insert edit to work with a DVC Pro deck?
  I even switched to a usb to serial adapter for the machine control and got the same results. Repaired Permis, trashed prefs. As a last ditched effort to get something done I went into “Edit to Tape” mode with the beta deck hooked up, then switched the cables back to the DVCPro deck and it worked.
  anybody?

  Thanks.
  Chris

  G5 Dual 2.7, 4.5 GB ram FCP 4.5 OS 10.4.1

  Chris Tompkins replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Joe Paolo

  July 7, 2005 at 8:40 pm

  We have the same issue with an AJ-SD930. We can digitize all day with IO or Decklink but cannot insert or assemble to the thing. Even though this deck can record, it can’t edit. Always read Panasonic literature very carefully. A workaround is to have a faithfull assistant at the deck to punch record after the preroll starts. Not pretty– but it works.

  joe
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  Doug Olin

  July 11, 2005 at 5:46 pm

  We have a AJ-D750 DVCPro deck that wouldn’t edit from FCP via the IO at first. After attempting several insert edits, I changed the RS-422 to Panasonic RS-422 in the device control window setting and then it worked great. I use it every week without problem. It looks like you’ve already tried the Panasonic RS-422 setting so if that doesn’t work, I’m not sure what else to try. Here are the settings from my working device control window for DVCPro.

  Protocol: Panasonic RS-422
  Time Source: LTC + VITC
  Port: FireWire
  Audio Device Control mapping (Ch1-8): 2 Channels
  Frame Rate: 29.97
  Do not use deck search mechansism
  Pre-roll: 3 seconds
  Post-roll: 3 seconds
  Capture Offset: -2.000 frames
  Handle Size: 00:00:00:00
  Playback Offset: 00:00:00:07

  Doug Olin
  Pensacola Christian College

  G5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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  Chris Tompkins

  July 12, 2005 at 11:59 am

  Thanks Doug. I’m going to check my settings against yours.
  BTW, I think the “Playback Offset” now should be set to 5 frames w/ the latest driver.

  Chris

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