avoided tape trouble/ error message while digitizing

[David Roth weiss]

What format are you trying to capture? What type of media drives are you using?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Jason Noto]

I am using a Beta SP format; my deck is a Sony UVW-1800 Betacam SP, and I am importing to an external EZquest 250 GB firewire hard drive (which has about 180 GB of free space). And I have FCP 5.04 software

Thanks. I appreciate any insight and info you are able to share

Jason

[Jason Levy]

Did you check that your device control settings have the protocol set to “Sony RS422”?

[David Roth weiss]

[JNdigital80] “I am using a Beta SP format;”

If you are trying to capture as 8 or 10-bit uncompressed your single drive cannot sustain the necessary throughput so you are dropping frames. Try capturing as DV or DV50, your single drive should definitely be able to handle that.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Michael Gissing]

I capture PAL 10 bit uncompressed to Lacie firewire 800 frives without problem. Don’t know about your drive so I suggest you run a drive test. If you have a Decklink card, it comes with disk speed test software. I am sure Kona has a similar tester.

Also it is recommended that both FCP and the SP deck get reference video. If you don’t have an external reference, then your capture card should be able to generate a reference to put into the SP decks ref in.

[Gordon Gurley]

Are you using a Kona card? AJA has a fix for this. Email AJA tech support and they should send you a script that should do the trick.

Gordon Gurley
Director of Operations
Stanford Video