Print to tape on Sony DSR DVCAM decks

[Kevin Monahan]

What’s your system look like?
Separate buses for FireWire device control and capture?

Kevin Monahan
60 Blu-ray Templates for Final Cut Studio 2009
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Doug Beal]

Critical to a number of decks is powering down the deck prior to connecting firewire. It is very easy to fry the ports on these decks.
One way to check if the deck is being seen is “about this mac” >more info> firewire
If the OS can see the deck there’s a setting issue or pref issue with FCP.
If the OS does not see the deck it’s cabling or blown ports on the device.
zapping Pram can reset the Mac FW ports

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Robb Harriss]

I know that some of the DV decks like those didn’t permit direct control on output, or recording of running timecode. Back in those days we would record in the wild: that is put the deck into record and simply put the editing system into record.

Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.

[Larry Watts]

We are using a single firewire cable for everything. Each deck only has one firewire port.
I hadn’t thought about separate ports. Is this common?

What is crazy is that our cheapest/oldest deck is the only one that both captures and prints.

[Larry Watts]

Doug,

Thanks for the tip! Our vendor didn’t suggest that one. By the way, we are very new to FCP so everything has changed in our workflow which can be daunting when hit with it all at once.

So About this mac/ more info/ It says built in hub and below it says “unknown device”. This is my DSR 20 deck

Are there drivers to be installed? What does it take to have it recognize the device?

Thanks!

Larry

[Larry Watts]

I just checked another computer with a Sony DSR 45 attached and that firewire window correctly identified the deck as a “DSR-45”, yet we haven’t successfully printed to tape with that one either.
I can’t check the DSR 11 yet as it’s attached to a PC right now. LW

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Larry,
With the VTR connected, look for the “Capture Preset” you are using, and, if is locked, duplicate it and open it.
Look the capture device that shows iside.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Larry Watts]

Correction. The DSR 45 deck is recording video from FCP using the print to video tool, but the DSR 45 is not putting down TIMECODE which is why we didn’t think it was recording.

So the question now is WHY NO TIMECODE on the DSR 45, but has TC with the DSR-11?

Help!