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Edit to Tape D5 Deck
I am trying to to edit to tape a 1080i 8bit 29.97 sequence onto a stripped D5 tape. I can capture from the deck at HD resolution and can control the deck but video nor audio are laying down for me. The record inhibit from the tape has been taken off. I have tried to lay back to tape as 8bit as well as 10bit. Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to bestow upon me.
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What capture card are you using? What version of FCP? What sort of footage are you outputing? What frame rate? does it match the format that the tape was blacked with?
Shane
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Have you ever used this deck before or is this the first time? If this is your first time with this deck, know that there are a bundle of settings on the deck that can “ruin your day”. Is this a deck a rental? If so, ask for help from the folks you rented it from.
There’s simply too many settings on that deck to troubleshoot it on a forum. You need someone looking at the deck and comparing settings to get you out of trouble.
mark
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I had issues on a dvcpro deck once.
what a nightmare.
and not nearly as complex as a D5.
good luck!
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This deck is not a rental. We have successfully layed off to it before from FCP. We are using FCP 5.1 with a Blackmagic Design card. I am just wondering if there is some sort of setting I am missing in FCP. Everything should be set correctly. My FCP sequence settings are 1920x1080i, 29.97, square pixel ratio, upper field,blackmagic uncompressed 8bit. The tape has been blacked to 1080i 59.94 which is 29.97. Thank you again for any help you may be able to give.
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This is a wild guess, but how many channels of audio are you trying to “enable”? It’s possible you “black and coded” the tape with a setting enabling only four channels, and you’re trying to lay down more than four. That would keep you from being able to record. Bottom line, you have a mismatch between what you’re outputting from FCP and what the deck is expecting to see. Perhaps between the time you “blacked” your tape and when you did the output, something got switched.
You need to get some tech support to come in and eyeball the deck and the system. Can’t do it this way.
Mark
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In addition to the 4 channel or 8 channel situation for the tape itself, make sure the Audio In settings on the deck match what type of audio your card is outputting. So, is your card sending AES or SDI audio? Make sure the Audio In settings within the PCM settings on the D5 deck are set to “Digital” for all the channels and then either “Serial” or “AES” for the type of “Digital”. There are a lot of settings on this deck and only working at a facility with engineers and tape ops has gotten me thru figuring a 1/4 of it.
-Chris Lundy
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