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Laying off to Digibeta
Hi guys,
We are having some problems laying off to tape from Final Cut. We are using a 12-core Mac Pro, a Kona card going into a DigiBeta deck. We are feeding the deck and the Kona card a 525 29.97 Reference Signal. In Final Cut, when I go to the edit to tape window the video, audio and timecode buttons at the bottom of the window are not working. If you drag a sequence to the Edit to tape window to layoff, all the buttons are grayed out. Anyone have any ideas on what is going on here?Thanks!
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6 Replies
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Sounds like you aren’t getting a video signal. Have you opened the Kona control panel to make sure it is configured correctly. Is your video input on the control panel set to SDI?
-mattyc -
Have you used an AJA easy setup and made sure your video output is set to All Frames in the View > External Video menu?
Jeremy
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“all the buttons are grayed out”
That’s probably a device control issue.
Ensure your RS422 is properly connected between the Kona and the Digital Betacam deck.
Ensure your FCP device control setting is set for Sony 29.97 (either A or B) and withing that setting that it is on the preset for Sony RS422 protocol and hasn’t been switched to something else.
If those two things are setup correctly and it still has the edit buttons grayed out in the ETT window, try this trick – with the ETT window open, select the device control tab and change it from whichever Sony 29.97 setting it is on – either A or B, to the other one and then back to the original one it is set on. You should see the edit selections enabled now.
If the first to things I mentioned are setup correctly, this is the trick for when the Kona and deck RS422 communications are hung up which happens from time to time with these cards…
Chad Brewer
Senior Broadcast Videotape Operator
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Yeah I think Chad has it.
Do you actually need to ETT? You might save yourself some trouble using Print to Video, no deck control needed. Of course you have no real timecode/edit control.
Mike
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I think we figured out that we had a bad RS422 cable. So you are right, it was the deck control. Thanks for all the help!
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I have been tryied laing off to digibeta. The audio tracks record fine, but no video. The canvas screen appears in the QC monitor in the same size as on FCP. Any help woudl be greatly appreciated
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