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No Communication
I’m logging/capturing with an AJA LA and a UVW-1800. I was logging, walked away from the machine for 15 minutes and all of a sudden there is no communication with the deck? I can communicate with a DV Firewire, but not the Beta deck. I can see the video in logging mode from the deck, so I don’t think its the AJA box. Have people seen this? Any ideas? Could the RS 422 connector on the deck have died? Thanks for any thoughts
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8 Replies
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just make sure the cables aren’t loose. quit and restart FCP.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Thanks Walter, I should have mentioned that I did check the casbles and restarted, but just did it again to be sure and the problem is still there!
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Do you have the “remote” turned on? Make sure the switch on the uvw-1800 is fliiped to remote and not local. (You know this I’m sure) I would also consider trashing your prefs. Search the forums and find the procedure, there’s even a cool little app that does it for you posted around here somewhere.
Good Luck
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Scott,
In FCP, check 3 things in a row under the view menu:
1. External video>all frames.
2. Refresh AV devices.
3 Video playback, select the appropriate AJA device.Also a good idea to trash prefs, repair permissions and restart before you do the above.
Have a wonderful day.
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All good suggestions… BUT Is your DV deck and AJA IO on the same firewire bus or card? Any AJA products must be on its own firewire card or bus. Meaning, that if your DV deck is hooked up to the Mac, then you need a firewire card installed into a PCI slot so that you can hook up the AJA IO. This is a requirement!
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Wayne Carey
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[Wayne Carey] “Meaning, that if your DV deck is hooked up to the Mac, then you need a firewire card installed into a PCI slot so that you can hook up the AJA IO. This is a requirement!”
Very good point. The DV Deck and the Io will cancel each other out if they’re both connected to FW ports on the Mac. Actually two FW devices can’t both be feeding FCP at the same time.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I have removed the DV firewire cable, the deck is in remote, right controller selected, and just trashed preferences – still no communication! So maybe its the connection on the deck? or the cable? thanks for the ideas, any more!
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I would contact AJA direct. They are very responsive to owner problem, and it is possible that there is a problem with the AJA box. I had an Io that would not respond, sent it in to AJA, and they replaced it. Come to think of it, they sent me the replacement first and when it worked I sent them my problem box. That’s nice tech support.
Wayne Orr
G5, Dual 2GHz, 1.5 GB Ram, OSX 10.3.9, AJA Io, SATA External Array 500 Gig
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