Decklink HD and Varicam camera transfers

[Juan Salvo]

yes

[Sean Meredith]

I’m in the middle of production and we’ve been flawlessly capturing uncompressed from the Varicam to the Apple 10bit codec. The only problem is no timecode. I’m sure you could just choose 8-bit instead of 10-bit.

[Kevin O’brien]

I can see I should have made my original post more specific.
Has anyone successfully captured from the Varicam camera itself to Decklink 8bit with successful time code, audio and picture? If so please e-mail me at summitflm@aol.com in addition to your post.
From your DP in the wilderness.

Thanks,
Kevo

[Sean Meredith]

I researched capturing with timecode and had no success. I heard two rumors that went like this: a) “black magic engineer says they’ll just turn it on when they get a chance and it’ll come through the SDI,” b) “aja has been trying to get the timecode out and they’re having lots of trouble.” someone recommended something called the Little Red to convert the BNC timecode out to RS-232. But then you have to get RS-232 in your system. At that point I ran out of time. Instead I’m just recording tape as extreme scenario back-up. Our main back-up is an extra copy of everything we capture.