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Drive recognition?
I work at a small post-production company in the UK and am having a bit of a crisis! Our AVDI editor is on holiday and we have recieved some tapes we need to capture urgently! The problem is, I’m having real trouble understanding how to capture on AVID Adrenaline. I have opened a new project and called up the Capture window and checked the settings according to the manual, but when I try to play anything off the tape I can’t see it anywhere (not on the connected monitor or the computer screens). The connections to the monitor are OK, because it works out of After Effects and the AVID loading screen comes up on it. Also if I try to capture ‘on the fly’ the tape plays for about 5 seconds, then I get an error saying that ‘the input from the deck has unexpectedly stopped’. We have a ‘Sony DSR-11’ DVCAM deck (the tapes are DVCAM), connected through the composite at the back of the AVID Adrenaline (we apparently don’t have the cables to do it any other way). The deck comes up as ‘Generic DV Deck’ in the capture window in Avid. The version of the AVID software should be up-to-date as our editor is very good at that.
Please help!
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3 Replies
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You say you are capturing on a DSR-11, via composite – how are you controlling the decks? AFAIK, that deck can only be controlled via firewire… (unless it’s a UK version with RS422)
If you do not have a firewire cable you’ll have to capture on the fly. In the digitize window, make sure you’ve selected composite as your input.’
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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In addition, make sure you’ve selected the Video button in your capture tool. You should see a V, A1, A2, etc… Select the tracks you want to capture or you’ll end up digitizing nothing–or the wrong tracks altogether. And if the V isn’t selected you won’t see any video in the Avid monitor when you play the tape.
M.
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thank you I will give that a try. You could be a lifesaver!
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