edit to tape DVCAM

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edit to tape DVCAM

Posted by Hamish Lyons on September 8, 2007 at 11:00 am

Is it possible to edit to tape via firewire using FCP?
I have an HVR1500 here, connected by firewire400 to FCP6, when I go to edit to tape it tells me- “the timecode appears to be missing from the tape. Please verify that tape is timecoded correctly”. Now the tape is striped, and the TC is coming through in the current TC field of the edit to tape window. I’ve also tried the deck in INT-PRESET, INT-REGEN and EXT-REGEN still with the same warning. Is this because firewire only allows for print to video is there something I am overlooking?

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Walter Biscardi
September 8, 2007 at 11:33 am

I’m not sure Insert Editing is supported via Firewire as I have never tried it.

But Assemble Editing works perfectly fine and FCP will send TC down the firewire line during the edit.

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Tom Wolsky
September 8, 2007 at 11:52 am

You can insert if device control is via RS-422. There should be no trouble assembling with FireWire device control.

All the best,

Tom

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Gnostic
February 17, 2009 at 5:34 pm

Hi,
I had a DSR-1500 deck for years and life was good, now I have an HVR-1500A and I’m using FCP 6 via FW in DV CAM. Whenever I do E2T in assemble mode, (Mastering setting,) I have never been able to get the deck to start the bars at 58:30:00:
Bars 60 sec
Black 10 sec
Slate 10 sec
Black 10 sec
Show start 1:00:00:00
I have tried EXT REGEN, INT REGEN, and even PRESET. It starts recording at a new place every time.

By trial and error, I learned that to black tape it requires a bunch of steps (not in the manual) and then it starts blacking accurately. Is there something I need to know about E2T that ushers me into the secret society of happy HVR-1500 users? I know that machine control is wacky with HDV, but I’m trying to lay a sequence back to tape with DV CAM.

The best,

Michael G

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