HELP – SONY BVW-50 Trouble with Final Cut

[Jeremy Garchow]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that deck will not do an automatic edit to tape. Manual assemble edits only. When FCP is saying to you is to out the deck in record mode (or record-play-pause). FCP will go through the motions and try and record to the deck, but that deck doesn’t work as an editing deck. It’s pretty much a field recorder usually used with a 26-pin run to/from a camera.

Jeremy

[Axel Ebermann]

Jeremy,

Thanks for your post. Are you sure ? My BVW-50 has a sony RS-422 9-pin edit control. I can control the deck from my remote controls on final cut, when I give it an “in” at 00:01:30:00 it will automatically preroll to 00:01:27:00 but then I get a pop up saying “adjust pre-roll settings”

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yep, I’m sure. The deck has no control for this. You can control the transport with rs-422, but you cannot do an ‘automatic’ record to tape. It’s kind of like the Panasonic 1200A deck, it also has rs-422 control but cannot do a controlled edit to tape using the serial connection.

Jeremy

[Axel Ebermann]

Thanks Jeremy. Never has help sucked that much 🙂 (just kidding…)

[Bernie Huth]

You can use this deck as a source deck and the RS422 control will work OK

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Lithia, FL

[Axel Ebermann]

I know the deck works as a feeder – the million dollar question though – does it work as a recorder in “edit to tape” mode ?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Again, nope. I’ve tried. My DP wouldn’t believe either, and then he tried. After fighting and sweating with his tried and true, solid workhorse of a BVW-50 and he looked at me and said, “Well, I think you’re right. This won’t work.” And he then he tried his backup BVW-50 and that one didn’t work either. If you find the magic bullet, let me know.

[Axel Ebermann]

sony support officially told me that the bvw-50 is a no go for assemble edit…

big bummer ….

thanks for all your great support though