ETT w/ MPB power weirdness

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Sacci] “What is not being understood is why do I need a BBG if the deck uses incoming video to sync when I record and the Io uses Video In when I capture? “

Well, you don’t HAVE to have it, but it offers more stability and when setup properly, you shouldn’t have to worry about this again. It’s not only for the ioHD it’s also for the deck which likes to see sync as well.

I have to check on the blue light as I have never watched it in ETT. I will get back to you on that.

Also, try turning off Appletalk.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

All right, I watched carefully during an ETT and the light goes off when you first go to ETT (as the io is in EE like we talked about) but when it actually performs the ETT, it grabs ref in again.

I still think this is a configuration issue. Take you SDI out from deck, put it in SDI in of io. SDI out if io to SDI in of deck. Gen10 out to io ref in, Gen 10 out to Deck ref in and terminate at the deck. Open the IoHD control panel, select ref in by right clicking on the Ref in triangle and choosing ref in. Open FCP and perform the down convert with the io Control panel. Open ETT. Ref light goes out. Drag timeline to assemble on ETT window, deck begins pre-roll and ref light should come back on. Watched layoff and everything looks great.

Jeremy

[Michael Sacci]

By the end of testing last night and through doing what you were suggestion, SDI in and Out video was connected to the deck. Gen10 was connected to deck, Io and monitor (all 525i29.97)

I go to ETT light goes out, drag seq to assemble it starts and light stays out. After hooking up the Video in to the Io the problem of the video glitch is still there but not nearly as often.

I will see if I can test this out either tonight or tomorrow.

[Michael Sacci]

Okay, I think with your help I have got the settings right.

SDI Loop is connect IN/OUT to deck-IoHD
Gen10 525i29.97 to both deck and IoHD
Deck set to:
OUT REF – REF (if I set it to Input video the video freaks out!)
PP.EE/PB – is set to PB when ETT (seems like it needs to be on PB.EE for capture or else I’m getting dropped frames)

I think it was the PB setting that was causing the problem with the ETT. I’m now getting the beautiful blue ref light back when the ETT goes into recording and in the AJA CP I can see that genlock is using Ref In

Just to confirm – when doing a capture it never comes back on, it that normal.

Thanks again for your help.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Sacci] “Thanks again for your help.”

No worries. That was a long one!

Ref shouldn’t come back on in capture as it’s getting it’s ref from incoming video and not external. Correct.

Jeremy