• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  SDX-900 Footage Capture FCP AJ-HD1400 Deck

  Posted by James Palugod on June 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm

  Hi,

  Trying to get FCP to recognize AJ-HD1400 deck so I can capture footage shot on SDX-900. No luck with several easy setup attempts.

  Any advice?

  Thanks,
  James

  Jeremy Garchow replied 16 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  James Palugod

  June 8, 2009 at 2:04 pm

  I have tried using a firewire connection and am now trying capture via Kona card. Would prefer to go firewire for convenience.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks
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  Mark Raudonis

  June 8, 2009 at 2:23 pm

  This is trouble shooting 101.

  Are you sure the firewire port on the deck is working? How about your cable? There are plenty of
  things that can make this NOT work. Isolate them and check them off the list. Other than making
  a “house call” there’s not much we can do for you here. Did you trash prefs and restart?

  mark
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  James Palugod

  June 8, 2009 at 2:40 pm

  Thanks for the response, Mark. Yes, I have already trashed prefs, and checked firewire cable.

  Here’s more info on the situation. I was able to control the deck in the capture window, but preview was disabled.

  I did some searching on the web and found this setting chart for the 1400 deck: https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/ieee1394/AJ-HD1400P_FCP512.html

  Changed a few settings on the deck itself, used easy setup Panasonic DV/DVCPro and DV NTSC and capturing fine now. If anyone else has this problem and has questions feel free to contact me.
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  Gary Adcock

  June 8, 2009 at 2:50 pm

  [Mark Raudonis] “Are you sure the firewire port on the deck is working? How about your cable? “

  LEts just see if oyu understand that to change the control status of the deck you have to change the FW output from HD to SD over the FW ports.

  you are using an SD tape in a Deck that is by default HD.

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  Jeremy Garchow

  June 8, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  [James Palugod] “and am now trying capture via Kona card. “

  If your’e using a Kona card, you can simply hook up the ‘SD-SDI’ port of the 1400 to the Kona.

  With firewire, you will need to dig in to the menus and choose dv50 (or I think what the deck calls it is 422 for 4:2:2 video). YOu have to change this is a couple of different palces if I rememeber correctly.

  In all honesty, the Kona card and RS422 is much much easier and faster, and will yield better quality.

  Jeremy

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