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Ready to throw 5 out the window
So, I have a Kona SD. I have recently installed Tiger, FCP5, and the newest decklink drivers. Everything has been working great and smooth, but I just tried to layoff using Edit to Tape for the first time with this setup and when I review the tape it does not play back correctly. When I out put things seem to be freezing and skipping. When it is laying off, the Edit To Tape window looks fine though. Anyone have any idea what could be happening? Capturing seems to be fine, but someone said I might need to update the drivers on my medea raids…if I do, do I have to back the raids up first…that would stink. I would like to just clean install everything like the Ken Stone article suggests…but this week is hell on wheels and I just don’t have the time for that….but might have to do it anyway.
Thanks,
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Oh….this is just a rant.
I was gonna offer to catch it. But then again, I already have it…so…
Are you watching the output on an NTSC monitor, or at least a TV? Never trust what you see in those little windows. And are you outputting to beta? DV? what?
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[Shane Ross] “Are you watching the output on an NTSC monitor, or at least a TV? Never trust what you see in those little windows”
Absolutely, never trust the Edit to Tape Window, always watch your output from the deck when laying back to tape.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
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“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I know not to trust the edit to tape window…That is what I am saying: This thing looks like it is laying off fine by the edit to tape window, but when I check the tape (digibeta) on the broadcast monitor, the layoff is all messed up. The picture freezes and stutters.
-eli
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Lay off to tape and MONITOR THE LAYOFF on an NTSC monitor. Hook it up to the digibeta and look at what is happening with that. If it is bad, then stop it and try to figure out why.
Try tossing your preferences, repairing permissions…the usual stuff.
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Start from the beginning. Is it FCP, is it the deck?
Create a new sequence, put a master clip on it, no edits. try to output that. What happens
Do the same but just hit record on the deck and play on the time line, what happens once you check the tape?
If you get a clean out, one of these ways, go to your cut program select an in and out export as a single file. Import put on new sequence and output.Some times you just gotta get the job done, however…
The description of your output might support some sync problem with your deck, check connections…
Chris
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I can’t help but notice that you said you installed the latest Decklink drivers, but you have a Kona 2. Typo? or???
tjs
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I know I’m a little bit late on this post…I’ll second what these guys are saying and add that I’ve just experienced what may be a similar problem. I had output a project from a G4 Powerbook with a Firewire drive onto an analog tape going through a Sony GVD-300 “deck” (one of those little mini-DV things) and had instances of picture freezes on the final tape (and without FCP stopping playback and displaying the Frame-Drop error window). I watched the second time I played back and saw that the timeline was playing fine and there were still no Frame-Drop error messages but that it did have some freezes on the NTSC monitor. That of course means that the media drive and FCP are OK, but that the deck is having a frame-buffering problem of some sort. I corrected the problem by hooking up another camera to PB. That stupid GVD-300 has always given me problems…I might throw it out of the window and send it into an orbital trajectory to hit the Sony HQ in Tokyo! 🙂
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