• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Cannot reliably insert frame accurately to an D-Beta A500 Need help.

  Posted by David on May 4, 2005 at 1:40 pm

  Sorry for the double post, but its getting pretty urgent . . .

  G5 Dual 2.0 5 gigs RAM
  Kona 2 1.1 drivers and newest firmware
  XServe via Fiber

  I’ve been wrestling with the most frustrating problem. I have a 90 minute show broken into segments. All segments begin on a frame :00 timecode. When editing to tape (K2 and the D-Beta are locked to house BB.) it is completely hit or miss whether I’m a frame early or a frame late or dead on. Furthermore, and this is where it gets really weird if I happen to get it right on the :00’s and that segment plays out and the next segment begins (also positioned on the playhead at an :00 frame) that segment may or may not begin on the :00 frame. Well, that seems impossible.

  Is the TC drifting? How can the program drift? By the way, not surprisingly, if I lay off the whole 90 minute program, the later segments are now drifting by 3 or four frames despite the beginning of the program beginning dead on at 1:00:00:00.

  The playback offset is 0. The tape was blacked and striped using FCP’s stripe feature, although I’ve had the problem when striped manually. When setting in points via the edit to tape function it always reports back correctly and the pre-roll is set to 5:00 although I’ve tried 7:00 with no improvements. All timecode windows everywhere report the correct timecode. The inserts are just terribly inconsistent.

  Anybody out there seem this?

  Thanks. David

  Tricky Ricky replied 21 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mark Raudonis

  May 4, 2005 at 2:09 pm

  David,

  We have seen this kind of “wonkiness” on starting points as well.

  Couple of things. If you read the manual that comes with the Digibeta deck, you will find that Sony does NOT guarantee that the Time Code window is 100% accurate to the actual code. Note that I said “the Window”, not the timecode. So, if you’re judging accuracy by what the visual window reads, that may account for this one frame discrepancy. Are you using dropframe or non drop frame for both your sequence and your master tape? I’m assuming that this is NOT a drop frame timecode issue.

  We haven’t experience the “drift” issue that you’ve described. Once it starts accurately, it stays accurate.

  mark
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  Tricky Ricky

  May 4, 2005 at 8:28 pm

  I had a similar issue yesterday and posted it. I master exclusively on DigiBeta A500 and often need to punch in and out of
  existing master. This seems like editing 101 especially with 422 control which is more accurate than 232.

  Any other adice on this would be GREATLY appreciated.

  Thanks…

  Rick
  naked eye editorial
  http://www.nakedeye.com

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