Edit to Tape: Writing Video.

[Shane Ross]

OK, for the record the audio is AIFF 48K 16-bit…mixed Stereo and Mono.

Now, I duplicated a sequence, stripped out the audio and…

Writing Video…21 min. Not the audio.

Maybe it is how I black and code the tape? I black and code using the ETT window and use the CURRENT SETTINGS option. Trying manually choosing KONA 3 29.97 ProRes. The deck says 1080i 59.94…but there is no 59.94 option in FCP. I’ll bet that is the issue.

Shane

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[Shane Ross]

WHOA! Dude! Well, Dudes…SOLVED IT!

I was black and coding with CURRENT SETTINGS. That was the WRONG THING TO DO! I manually told it to black and code as AJA Kona 3 1080i 29.97 ProRes and now writing to Video took…

Ready?

Sure?

20 seconds.

I should have figured this out earlier. I feel stupid now. I forgot that these HDCAM SR and HDCAM decks are finicky about the signal you black the decks with and the signal you send.

Thanks for your input.

(I was half expecting to be Zelinized about this. “You are an idiot! How are you blacking your tapes? I bet you have that all wrong!”)

Shane

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[Tom Daigon]

Here is a slightly divurgant black and coding question. Is it possible to b & c a tape (ie from 58:4500 to 59:01:00). Then put the ETT in an
assemble mode so you can simultaneously lay the show down (starting with bars and tone at 59:00:00) to a raw tape?
I do this time saving work flow with the Avid DS and wonder if FCP can
do it as well?

[Shane Ross]

Yup…that’s what I do. Black and Code the first minute or two, then back up and then assemble from that point on.

Very slick. If you black and code properly.

Shane

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Tom Daigon] “I do this time saving work flow with the Avid DS and wonder if FCP can
do it as well? “

Been doing this since 1996. First with Media 100 and since 2001 with FCP. I have never blacked a tape all the way through, just that first minute.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Tom Daigon]

Thanks for the affirmation Shane and Walter!
Now if the economy would only chug back to life so my employer could purchase a Final Cut room to replace my old DS I would be able to utilize all this useful information I have been accruing by “working” every evening in my Final Cut room AT HOME (thanks to Maxx Digital).
I figured there’s no better way to hit the ground running then exploring and playing with a system at home. I never had this luxury with CMX and Avid systems!
Tom

[Shane Ross]

GAH GAH and triple GAH!

Nope, that didn’t solve it. It did that one time…that one tape. Every tape since then…same thing. I black the tape using Current Settings, or I manually choose the settings in FCP…or I black the tape using the deck and manually setting all the numbers. Doesn’t matter…still WRITING VIDEO for 19-28 minutes.

This is getting really frustrating. Doing four 25 min outputs is taking all day!

Shane

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[Shane Ross]

SOLVED IT!

I called Terry Curren at Alpha Dog and he and a collegue had me adjust one of the RT settings, PLAYBACK QUALITY from DYNAMIC to HIGH. Then my entire timeline turned orange. NO wonder it was WRITING VIDEO.

So, why was it orange? I compared the clips settings with the sequence settings and everything matched…to a “T.” I couldn’t figure it out. So I asked a friend at Apple who asked me to send him a screen shot of my clip settings, sequence settings and RT menu. He asked if I was using multiclips…I wasn’t. So he said turn that off. He also said “oh, and turn off VIDEO SCOPES PLAYBACK.”

I did…BOOM…fully rendered again. Then I output to tape and it does it instantly…no writing.

I am doing the happy dance of joy around my bay!

I didn’t even have the scopes ON…wow.

Shane

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[Shane Ross]

You are surely welcome. This took a lot of people brainstorming. Terry Curren of Alpha Dog to mention the RT menu…again. But that looked fine to many people, then an Apple tech I know said “hey, turn off that waveform option…” I did and BOOM!

But, you are welcome. I hoped to put this out there so that when someone else had this issue (like yourself), they could find the answer.

Shane

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[Randy Lee]

Thank you Shane for saving me from writing video for 4 hours, 4 times to lay off an hour-long DVCPro HD sequence 4 times. No writing needed and I can go home tonight instead of staying g at work all day on a Sunday. Is this typically just an issue with HD, or is it something you don’t notice as much in SD? Today is the first time I’ve run into the issue.

Of course, there’s always the possibility that the other editor that was using my system could have changed the settings. I haven’t noticed anything else strange though. Regardless, thank you for clearing this issue up for me.