HDV Timeline out to Sony deck

[Michael Horton]

If your mac sees the deck then it must be a setting on the deck. That or trash your prefs and try again

Michael Horton
lafcpug
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[David Roth weiss]

Have you conformed the sequence?

[Michael Horton]

Print to video will automatically conform the sequence. Takes FOREVER. Perhaps that is why you think it is not recording?

Michael Horton
lafcpug
https://www.lafcpug.org

[Jerry Alto]

Michael and David- Thanks for your quick response. Yes I went thru the whole conform process. I guess I’ll dump my preferences next. I keep getting this response on my deck and it wont go away, ‘Changes not allowed. Unplug i.Link cable’\.’
Of course I’ve unplugged the cable 50 times but the message will not go away.’
Jerry

[Brad Johnson]

Jerry,

I had a similar issue on a 1ZU (same mechanism but sans the input menu) and had to reset the “in/out rec menu -> VCR HDV/DV” menu to “auto” instead of HDV and then switch the “i.link conv” menu to on (ignoring the warning message that changes aren’t allowed) and then to off. And then I was fine.

You’ve likely tried this already, but I found that ignoring the “changes aren’t allowed” is fine.

Brad

[Jerry Alto]

Thanks guys, it was pilot error in the audio/video settings in FCP….. in AV devices I had not checked the ‘different output for Edit to Tape/Print to Video’

Some things I learned;

. Make sure camera/deck is set to HDV
. Preset the timecode and make sure TC Make is in preset
. Attach firewire from the deck/camera BEFORE launching FCP5.
. FCP Audio/Video Settings ‘AV devices’ tab lower half checked & HDV (1440×1080) is selected and mirror on desktop is checked. Device control tab; I used Sony HDV firewire (duh).

Workflow: Mastering to HDV for HD master then output from HDV deck SD 4:3 component to DigiBeta component analog inputs for SD DigiBeta Master.

This is a new area for an old dog but damn it does look good! Does this mean I can kiss the old Betacam and its compacitor meltdown goodby?
Jerry