Kona LHe – Assemble edit with Panasonic AJ-SD93 VTR

[Jerry Hofmann]

Tried trashing prefs on the errant machine?

Jerry

[Jeremy Garchow]

That VTR (similar to the 1200A) cannot do assemble edits as there’s no flying erase heads. How you got it to work is a mystery. Are you sure it worked or was it just going through the motions?

Jeremy

[Bob Zelin]

Crispy –
you have NEVER gotten the AJ-SD93 VTR to do an assemble edit. If you have used the firewire interface, you may have done a “pseudo” assemble, but now that you are using the composite/component/sdi connections, and using the RS422 port, you CANNOT do an assemble edit with this VTR.

This is how FALSE INFORMATION gets started (and you are fooling and deceiving yourself, because you used IEEE 1394 in the past with this VTR).

From the Panasonic website –
“The AJ-SD93 will record the output from a nonlinear editor. Adding optional accessories will not enable insert editing capability. ”

This quote is from the AJ-SD93 site – see this link –
https://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=71646&catGroupId=14595&modelNo=AJ-SD93&surfModel=AJ-SD93

Bob Zelin

[Herb Sevush]

If, big question there, the AJ-SD93 is like the 1200A then the fact that Panasonic claims it can’t do assemble edits is fairly meaningless. They make the same claim about the 1200A, yet there is a way to assemble with FCP. With the 1200A you have to select the appropriate firewire setting for “Device Control” and then the appropriate Black Magic (in my case) or Kona setting under “capture/input” and then you are able to perform assemble edits with accuracy up to +/- 2 frames (you’ll also have to figure in an offset thru trial and error. Once you have it the system will be fairly accurate.) I don’t know if this holds for the AJ-SD93 as well, but it’s worth a try.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Bob Zelin]

you are doing a “clean” crash recording which somehow works with Firewire only (as Walter has discussed in the past on this forum). There are no flying erase heads on a AJ-SD93 or a
AJ-HD1200A. Crash recording is not assemble editing, no matter how clean it looks. This is like saying “I don’t care if it’s DV-25 or uncompressed 10 bit – the picture looks pretty good to me, and to my client” – what the hell does this mean ?????

Bob Zelin