Output to Channel 3&4 on DigiBeta Deck. HOW????

[David Battistella]

You have to do it analog with two passes.

Mute 3&4 for the first pass.

Repatch the cables and mute 1&2 for the second pass.

If you have SDI out:

Go to sequence settings AUDIO

create another group and make the all of them MONO pairs.

Now you have four MONO track representing 1 2 3 4

output via SDI embedded and the tracks will go down to the four tracks in one pass.

Now that’s some useful information.

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Paul Factora]

thanks for the reply David.

is there anything else i need to disable on the deck itself?

i tried it out and ended up erasing channels 1&2 🙁

[Michael Alberts]

Whoops. Posted my answer in the wrong thread. Now that I’m in the correct thread, here is the correct answer.

You’ll need to do an Insert Edit to Ch 3/4 and make sure you turn off channels 1/2 in the ETT window.

By the way, you would make your life a lot easier if you were using an AJA Kona card. SDI straight out with all audio channels at one time. No messy conversions from analog to digital either.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.

[Paul Factora]

thanks Michael,

wish i had that card. : /

Well, i’m about an hour into laying in 3&4.

I did it as an “Assemble Edit” though.

Should I just stop it now or will the assemble edit work just as well?

thanks,

-p

[Michael Alberts]

I don’t believe the Assemble mode gives you the ability to turn off audio channels. However, you’re not hooked up via SDI to the deck so I’m not sure. A quick test would be in order to determine if it works or not. I’m not familar with your “canaput digital i/o” so I don’t know what digital outs it has on it. If it has SDI than great, but if it’s all analog then your best bet would be to disable the Ch 1/2 manually on the deck when it goes into record mode. It’s been a LONG time since I tried what you’re attempting.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.

[David Battistella]

It has to be an insert edit.

An Assemble edit enables the flying erase head when erases every track ahead of the new video it is laying down.

use the edit to tape window to Select the tracks.

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Paul Factora]

thanks guys, insert edit does the trick!

-p