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DSR 1500A
We have the DVCam deck DSR 1500A connected to our Emac via firewire and to an NTSC monitor with a BNC cable. We cant acheive FCP playback onto the monitor.
What do we do?
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Without sepcifics this is what’d I’d reccomend:
1)you cannot have the DSR1500 and any external Firewire drives connected to the computer at the same time.
2)is the DSR1500 set to “iLink” with the video input select buttons up front?
3) make sure there isn’t a tape in the deck, it may simply not be in EE mode.
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“)you cannot have the DSR1500 and any external Firewire drives connected to the computer at the same time.”
WHY NOT?
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[CharlieX] “1)you cannot have the DSR1500 and any external Firewire drives connected to the computer at the same time.”
Why not? I’ve never heard of this one before. Of course you can have a Firewire drive and a DSR-1500 connected at the same time, especially to an eMac which has two Firewire 400 port. You can’t have two Video Firewire devices connected at the same time, but a drive and a deck, sure.
I would suspect that your 1500 is not set correctly for Firewire video input or your video connections on the back of the deck are not connected correctly.
With my DSR-11 there’s a small dip switch in the front for Video Input, I have to set that to DV for firewire input / viewing.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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The 1500A exhibits the same problems as the AJA Io. It must have the whole FW bus to itself. Otherwise during playback there will be random black frames going to your NTSC. I don’t know about other DSR decks. But I know this is a problem with the 1500A. We spent two weeks calling our VAR and wracking our brains ot figure out these black frames.
The solution is, like the IO, to use a PCI Firewire card so you have 2 FW busses.
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here’s the problem from way back when:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=809719
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If you have the SDTI/Ilink button selecting ilink as the input, and you have the cable to the correct video outout, and within the interface menu, you have video output set to the correct output, then you should check that you have Final Cut Pro set to have video playback out the firewire, and if you have the monitor on the correct input, then I think it should work.
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[CharlieX] “The 1500A exhibits the same problems as the AJA Io. It must have the whole FW bus to itself. Otherwise during playback there will be random black frames going to your NTSC.”
Well that’s ugly, as I do it all the time with a 1500 (not the a model). I’ve had three firewire drives connected as well as the 1500 and never had any issues…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[CharlieX] “The 1500A exhibits the same problems as the AJA Io. It must have the whole FW bus to itself.”
Hmm, first I’ve heard of this. Don’t see this with the DSR-11 or the Panasonic AJ-HD1200A.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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curious. maybe upgrades in the latest G5 Firewire bus? Or perhaps a firmware revision to the 1500A? I think we bought the first run of them.
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Black frames on DSR-1500/DSR-1500A is a well known issue. Disconnecting all FW disks does fix it. Clean mains power sometimes fixes it too.
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