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  • External Video set to OFF and i can’t change it !!!

    Posted by Tajette O’halloran on December 1, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Hi, I am trying to capture a tape on my Sony XHA1 and it keeps saying ‘CAN’T INITIALIZE VIDEO DECK’. From browsing other forums apparently i need to have ‘ALL FRAMES’ selected but i can’t change it from ‘OFF’….’ALL FRAMES and SINGLE’ are black (not grey). I have no idea why i can’t select ALL FRAMES. I’ve captured loads of tapes in the past and have never come accross this….

    any help will be very much appreciated.

    Thanks

    Tajette

    Dennis Leppell replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Dennis Leppell

    December 3, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    As a matter of practice, before I switch to all frames (it gets shut off semi-randomly, it seems) always refresh a/v devices first. That’ll make the computer shake hands with the playback device so they’re speaking the same language. I’ve added a button on the timeline to do this in one click.

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