digital breakup never in the same place twice

[Jerry Hofmann]

Might try exporting the file as a self contained QT movie using current settings. Course this will require a lot of disk space, but it’s the easiest thing for your computer to playback reliably.

Jerry

[Tony]

You are seeing SDI errors which could be caused by many different items.

1) Brand, type and quality of video cable being used (are all the bnc cables you are using rated to pass Standard Def SDI?)
Belden 1505A, 1694 and 1855 are all rated for SD SDI and HDSDI.

2) Are you using any bnc barrels and/or extending bnc cables with different brand model, length and ratings?

3)Are you feeding out of a patchbay?

4) Do you have an SDI wfm that can record an error log so you can see what the specific errors and error rates are?

5) How full are your hard drives?

Tony Salgado

[Nick Ryan]

We have the same problem. It’s been driving us buggy for a while now – happens on all three of our systems. The editor across the hall told me that he would add a slug to the top track – then change the transparency to 0%. He said it worked for him – it didn’t seem to work for me though. Best results I’ve gotten are to export as a current settings quicktime, bring it back in to its own timeline, do an audio mixdown, print to tape and hold your breath. I’m still searching for the “cure”, however… We did a complete reinstall of everything from the ground up on my system – I haven’t seen the problem come back yet but I really haven’t put it to the test yet either…

Nick

[Tony]

I wonder if another factor might be RT extreme and the effect that has on the image output as well as the speed of the hard drives for playback?

This might account why the issues are not visible when you create a QT movie of the file.

Tony Salgado

[Krisi Summers]

Thank you for your ideas and suggestions. Our bnc cables are top quality. My drive is pretty full, however I haven’t seen that problem on the other projects on the same drive–but they are much shorter programs.

So would the solution be to get SATA drives instead of firewire? Well, I’ll do some more experimenting.

Thanks for your help.

Krisi

[Kevin Monahan]

FireWire drives are satanic. I would suspect them first, especially when you are doing captures that are so incredibly lengthy. Any way you can break these up to 20 minute captures?

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Perhaps you should take your deck in for service?

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ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre
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