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can’t print to tape from FCP to DVCAM
Hi all. Banging my head over this — need to print from FCP on PowerPC to DVCAM on Sony DSR-45. Connected by firewire. I can control the deck and hear and view everything in Log and Capture. On output, I’m getting fine audio levels, and in printing to tape, I’m recording fine audio. I’m just not seeing nor recording video on the tape.
I even tried switching external video [in View menu] to “all frames”, which allows me to view the frame where the playhead sits in the Sony’s screen. But when I print to tape, I just see that frame throughout and not the video. It’s especially frustrating that I just have about 3 mins of video to lay off and can’t quite get this working, and I’m hoping to avoid using the Aja, since I should just be able to get this going.
I’ve also tried changing A/V settings a dozen times, then closing final cut, detaching and reattaching firewire, turning on deck, restarting computer, then opening FCP, but still no luck. Is there a perfect order to this method?
Any tips? thanks, dave.
David J. Smolar
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Creative Video of Washington
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In a pinch, just hit record on the deck and play the timeline.
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Thanks for the note. Turns out I’d exported the QTs as 1280×720 using H.264 instead of exporting them in a DV-NTSC friendly codec. That’s why the deck could hear it but not see it. Had to finagle a bit after that, considering the footage was really 16:9 — but with a little anamorphic pushing, it seems to work. Ended up doing it fullscreen in the end since some of the footage was actually 4:3 in a 16:9 file, making it pillarboxed, and the producer didn’t want to see any black bars anywhere.
–dave.
David J. Smolar
Preditor
Creative Video of Washington
creativevideo.com
inbetweenthings.com
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