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Controlling a deck without RS 422 with the IO HD
Hello!
First post here,couldn’t find any articles related….i’m really interested in buying the IO HD to use it with my laptop on the road but i’m not sure how am i going to control my camera or the tape deck since none of the them have RS 422 for control and,since i never used any kind of capture cards and only had firewire controlled equipment,and i’m aware that the IO HD uses all the FW bus,can i still use the regular FW 400 connection to control the camera or deck(Sony GV-HD700) without affecting the capture with the IO?
Thanks in advance.
Gustavo.Always learning….
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[Gustavo Mendes] “can i still use the regular FW 400 connection to control the camera or deck(Sony GV-HD700) without affecting the capture with the IO?”
NO.
you will need to add a FW card to EVERY computer if you want/ need to use the IoHD with FW storage.
gary adcock
Studio37
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I know i cannot use it for external drives,but that’s the thing,i’m using a ESATA card for my external capture drive, i just want to know if a can use the firewire 400 to control the deck or camera,nothing else,or i will have to do “capture now” instead of “batch capture”,making it not very useful if i need the timecode for recapturing.
Thanks.Always learning….
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What deck do you have?
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Sony GV-HD700…it’s a small deck (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/516841-REG/Sony_GVHD700_GV_HD700_HDV_Video_Walkman.html ) that can be only controlled by firewire.
Always learning….
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If it has a lanc connection on it, you can convert your lanc to rs422 via an addenda converter.
Jeremy
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It doesn’t…..any sugestions for a good,reasonably priced deck for hdv that has RS 422?Seems to be the easiest solution…
Always learning….
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I think sony makes a deck or two with rs422 and I think convergent designs makes a box that will convert hdv to rs422 and hdsdi. Cheaper than a new deck.
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