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Capture ain’t that great either
I thought the Video Toaster was a little behind the times but for input and output to tape it kicks Premiere / Decklink’s butt. The tape output module works by has no interface and no way to abort. I am capturing a bunch of material and was thinking “this capture module is decent, why can’t they just use this code for output as well?” just then I was trying to capture something where the timecode was broken. The deck was furiously going back and forth trying to perform the edit and I was trying every button there is to abort it. I took the deck out of remote and when I put it back in it started up again. I had to quit capture and start all over again. Is this normal!??! Is this professional level software? Jeez, good thing I’m a visual effects artist, if I was an editor I’d be really pissed!!
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Well, if you were an editor you’d be p*ssd that someone gave you a tape w/ timecode breaks!
Does the Toaster really ignore TC breaks? That would be handy… I too have clients that sometimes forget the purpose of TC and batch capture…
-jeff
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Yeah, there shouldn’t have been TC breaks to be sure. What bothers me is that there is no way to abort! The decks are in another room so when I try to abort an Output at any point I have to run in to the machine room and stop the deck. Now I find I have to do the same thing on input if there is an error like a TC break. Just seems like the code is not very robust. I’m on Windows and I want the software to be as robust as the same product on the Mac. If not then they should not advertise it as fully supporting both OSs! The Toaster has a full input /output interface where you can stop the deck at any time, view the output of the deck through the computer monitor on output or whenever but then again so does just about any other pro app I’ve used. This isn’t new technology features I’m asking for. Really basic stuff. Surprised there aren’t more posts about this.
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