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Capture offsets broken?
Is anyone having the same problems I’m having adjusting RS-422 timecode offsets on capture? They just won’t stick…
We do a regular show that’s offlined on Avid, and finished via Automatic Duck in FCP and Color. As you’d expect from Avid’s deck-specific capture templates, capture into Avid from our Sony J-3 playback deck is frame accurate.
FCP’s device control presets are rather more generic, and fair enough – even the same models of decks vary, and although I’ve never found Avid’s templates to be off, perhaps they could be… in theory.
Anyhow, when we recapture for online from source Digibeta and the occasional SP from the J-3 via a Kona LHe, the timecode received by FCP is consistently 2 frames off. I know this from comparing the clip’s timecode with an SDI video burn in.
So I adjust the Device Control capture offset by 2 frames, create a new Easy Setup and try again. No difference. I go 4 frames the other way, and try again. Nothing changes. The stated offset is different, and FCP IGNORES IT! Trashing prefs, repairing permissions – nothing seems to alter the fact that whatever in either FCP or the Kona drivers is meant to look at, and adjust, captured code to match an offset, simply doesn’t work.
Thoughts anyone? Kona/BlackMagic users?
Peter
Macs, FCP, Avid, Nitris DX, Color, HDCAM…
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No one having any issues with serial device control? Am I alone on this one?
Macs, FCP, Avid, Nitris DX, Color, HDCAM…
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