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Export to Tape w/AJA Kona LHi just sits there
I’m currently using FCP7 to do this, since I can’t get Premiere Pro CC2014 to do it. Here’s the behavior I’m seeing.
I’ve installed the latest AJA Drivers for my Kona LHi card.
If I go to Export->Tape (Serial Device), I can control the deck with the on-screen controls. If I set an in point and do an Assemble edit, it pre-rolls my “tape” (actually an XDCAM disc) to three seconds before the in point, but then the Edit to Tape dialog just sits there with “Exporting…” and the thermometer bar. It never rolls the tape and starts recording.
FCP7 does this just fine. In fact it just finished writing my sequence (exported as ProRes and brought into FCP7)
My device settings are the Kona card for Board, 29.97DF for Timebase, and LTC+VITC for Timecode. I’ve tried other options for Timecode (VITC only), and have tried checking and unchecking “Enable Embedded SDI TC”. It still just sits there and never kicks over to record.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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7 Replies
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Hi Chris,
To confirm, are you using Premiere Pro 2014.1 (8.1)? AJA driver/plugin 10.5.2? What OS do you have?
Sometimes increasing the PreRoll to 5 seconds helps.
I’ll try to reproduce in house however I tested this not too long ago and it worked without issue.
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
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Peter: thanks very much for the quick reply.
I’m using Premiere Pro 2014CC, its About dialog says “2014.0.1 Release” and “8.0.1 (21) Build”
OS is 10.8.5, AJA drivers are 10.5.2.
I’ll try setting preroll to 5 seconds and see how that goes. It also looks like I need to upgrade to 8.1… I’d been working on projects and have been ignoring the CC updates.
Thanks again.
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Hey Guys,
Wanted to see if you had any resolution on this? We have the exact same scenario, OS, drivers, etc. Weird thing is we can print to tape just fine, and insert to tape just fine…we do 95% assembly edit from pre-blacked tapes of large timelines…so it is a bit frustrating for us!
We double checked out setting in the AJA control panel and they are all set to the correct settings, and we can output from FCP just fine. It just seems to sit there when we assemble.
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I didn’t get a chance to try 8.1 today but will try to do that first thing tomorrow and report my results.
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Just tried an assemble edit with Premiere 8.1–still the same behavior, it just says “Exporting….” and never starts the XDCAM deck.
FCP7 continues to be my workaround for exporting to tape.
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Hi Dave,
Are you going out to XDCAM disc as well?
Chris – Sorry for the hassle. Still trying to reproduce in house. Have you reached out to AJA support yet? They might be able to provide you some help.
I’ll keep working on it.
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro -
We are going to an HDCAM deck – an HDWF500. I’ve contacted AJA and they can’t quite seem to replicate the issue. We’ve been double/triple checking our settings on the deck but in theory if it can lay off to tape in FCP, AJA Control Panel, and Avid then the deck setup is probably where it should be. I can’t seem to locate any white papers on deck settings that premiere might have differently then other NLE’s, but I doubt it would be that drastically different.
As I said, we can print to tape fine, insert edit fine…but just can’t assemble edit (which is unfortunately most of our work!). It seems to lockup at the in point of the video. Our deck is set to the following:
-Internal Regen for timecode
-Run Record (not free run)
-Reference set to internal, we have 525 black burst generator running to the the edit and deckI shouldn’t have to send it 1080i/59.59 sync – but might try that in the morning. Sorry for the delayed in replays…I keep forgetting to check back on the forum!
It’s just really strange that we can lay off in the AJA tool, FCP, and Avid all fine with the same settings…but there might be something I’m missing…actually good chance that I am 🙂
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