Downconverting / Capture Now / Start Stop Detect

[Gary Adcock]

[Michael] “Is this because I’m down converting, and it is not DV?”

it is because you are down converting a non digital signal via component out of the deck.

there is not any time code either..

gary adcock
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[Kevin Monahan]

DV Start Stop only works with DV 25 AFAIK.

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[Jerry Hofmann]

AND it only works with camera masters… It’s using the time of day code built into a DV-25 cameras. When it sees a jump in time (every camera pause would cause this in time of day code) it creates a marker.

Jerry

[Gary Adcock]

[Kevin Monahan] “DV Start Stop only works with DV 25”

Kev

I have always thought it was any video over FW – it works from varicam tapes via the 1200a deck

gary adcock
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[Gnostic]

Thanks Gary,

I am outputing a component video signal out of the M10U into the AJA, but I’m also directly outputing a firewire time code into the G5. When I capture, I set the device control to “Firewire NTSC” which controls the deck. I had thought that this made the FCP happy with a digital time code signal.

Michael

[Gary Adcock]

[Michael] “I set the device control to “Firewire NTSC” which controls the deck. I had thought that this made the FCP happy with a digital time code signal.”

Sorry Michael
It is not the same – it is my understanding that the aux TC track which gives you the start stop detection gets stripped out when you do the analog down-conversion–

This aux timecode is in different locations with different settings in HD vs SD – just like Closed Captioning is in a different location and format in HD and not completely transferable.

gary adcock
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Chicago, IL

[Gnostic]

Thanks to all,
This makes sense with what is happening. Before our HDV adventure, I was outputting DV25 to an analog DV50 signal, so this also would have stripped off the camera cut signal. Too bad. The drill now is to capture everything and put the markers in manualy.

Thanks again,
Michael