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Rosendahl LIF & HVR-M10U
I had bought the Rosendahl LIF L1029. (lanc to 9-pin remote)
with the Sony HVR-M10U deck.
I’m outputting analog component
(using it with mini DV and not HDV,)
and feeding it into:
AJA IO LA
and it then goes into a
G5 Tower and
FCP (Panther) editing system
by firewire.
and I’m using DV50.When capturing, in FCP, from the HVR-M10U deck, when I go into reverse, then forward, it takes a delay of two to three seconds before it moves.
Then when I’m batch capturing, it very often hangs up. I can start it again by just running the deck for a few frames and it works, but it is a pain.
The question is: is this the way it normally works and I’ll have to put up with it? Or is this abnormal and there is something I can do?
I know in the manual, it says you can adjust something with an oscilliscope. (I don’t have one.)
My DSR-1500 deck runs like a jack rabbit and never hangs up, but it also cost twice as much.
Am I just saddled with this kind of performance?
MikeMike
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6 Replies
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Why are you controlling the deck using lanc rather than firewire?
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I was told that the firewire control was unreliable.
Mike
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Mike,
Seems to me the way you’re doing it is unreliable. Who told you firewire deck control was unreliable? Why the heck are you capturing DV through a Kona board anyway? Just plug the firewire into your MAC with deck control and capture audio, video, and timecode through one wire.
DRW
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HI Dvid,
I don’t have the Kona, I have the AJA IO-LS.
I have a Beta UVW-1800 hooked in because we’ve got tons of archival stuff and we also send out Beta for our PBS shows, and I have a switcher to go back and forth between the UVW-1800 Beta and the DSR-1500 digital deck. I’m going in and out component, because I can use DV-50, which, to me, makes a lot better picture.
I was told that the firewire was quirky by an apple consultant who does a lot of FCP, (including editing.) We’ve worked together a lot, and I trust him totally, (so that’s not an issue.) Also, he didn’t sell the Rosendahl. I bought it from a different company, so he wasn’t trying to sell me something.
It would have been great to just go with the firewire, because it would have saved us a lot of money, but when I compared the DV (with firewire,) and DV-50 with a component signal, I thought there was a big difference. That’s why, when I hooked in the HVR-M10U, (outputing standard def.,) I am outputting it as a component signal, which also works with all the other stuff.
Am I wrong?
Thanks Dave,
Mike GilliganMike
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[Mike Gilligan] “I was told that the firewire was quirky by an apple consultant who does a lot of FCP, (including editing.) We’ve worked together a lot, and I trust him totally, (so that’s not an issue.)”
Mike,
Sorry, but this is absolute rubbish. I can say with 100% certainty that your Apple consultant is mistaken.
DRW
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Thanks David,
This is new information. Are you saying that it is possible to use the firewire for time code and deck control only and still out/input a component video signal? Unfortunately the Rosendahl cost about $800.00, which is big bucks for us.
Our next excruciating system upheaval is switching back and forth from Beta, DV, and HDV. We just got two Sony HDV cameras and the M10U deck, so we will, I understand, have to get the Kona transcoder and keep switching the preferences in FCP according to which format we are using.
By the way, I’m a refugee from Discreet Edit* and I have fallen totally in love with FCP.All the best,
Mike GilliganMike
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