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Insert and Assemble Editing problems
Just curious folks. Lately, every time I try to insert edit or assemble edit to my BVW-D75 betacam SP deck from FCP 5, my cut won’t lay to tape at the in point. My deck keeps creating new time code at the insert point and I am not sure if this is somehow caused by my DL Extreme card and FCP 5. Where is the timecode coming from?
I had no problems with driver 4.8 and I have tried various combinations of deck settings and Decklink preference settings.
Please advise.
Here’s my config:
G5 Dual 2/4 GB RAM/ 250 x2 Internal SATAs/ 3.5 TB Xserve RAID/ ATI Radeon 9600 XT/ ATI Radeon 9200/ Decklink Extreme (Driver 5.0b1/Tiger (MacOS 10.4.1)/
Apple 23″ HD Cinema Display/ Apple 17″ Cinema Display/ Sony 50″ Wega DLPDL Extreme Prefs: Black OUt on SDI Digital Out
DL connected to BetacamSP deck via SDI and RS 422 deck control
Tapes prestriped
Deck set to preset instead of regen.
Tangier
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5 Replies
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Set your deck to internal and regen timecode and it should work.
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Dalen thanks for the reply. Here’s my process. Please confirm if I am doing this correctly:
– set deck timecode and manually stipe tape in PRESET mode and timecode generated internally
– after striping is complete, set deck to REGEN MODE
– perform insert edit from FCP at specified in pointQuestions:
– Does the decklink card pass timecode to the dieck via the RS422 connector?
– Is it possible for me to bypasst prestriping a tape and just record my sequence timecode from FCP to deck and how(considering FCP seems to always want an in point set)?
– Does LTC and VITC timecode have anyything to do with the problems I am having – the DL device control setting for 8 and 10-bit uncompressed defaults to LTC.Thanks for any help. I need to find a small video engineering seminar!
Tangier
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Your workflow sounds correct… so not sure what to suggest. Is the deck working properly when it isn’t hooked to the DL card?
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It seems to have worked after switching back to REGEN mode before editing to tape. Although I wish I could just edit to tape with timecode from my sequence without striping the tape first.
Tangier
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It is always good to stripe your tape first, but like here there is never enough deck time to stripe tapes. We do a modified stripe process where we strip say the first 2 min of the tape starting with time code 00:58:30:00. Then we put the deck in regen, and assemble edit the show onto the tape. Works everytime.
Kevin
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