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Recapping hell
I just purchased the HVR-1500 Deck from Sony and I am having severe problems making it work with my system. I have a Multibridge pro connected to a Octo MacPro running FCS 2.0.
The problem is that my FCP looses track of the TC from the deck if it has to fastforward through the tape, so that every time I have multiple clips I’m batching, those clips which are grouped closely on the HDV tape seem to work fine but when there’s a clip far off the “beaten path” it captures it almost seconds off. Almost like it doesn’t re-read the TC once it’s arrived at the approximate location. When I rebatch the troublesome clip and it’s already located around the right spot, it batches correctly. This is a very unbearable situation and I’m desperate to get some help to get the issue solved. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
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We’ve been having the exact same problem, only worse, with the HVR-1500. We’ve talked to Sony and we’ve talked to AJA (we have several Kona 3’s and a Kona2). Everyone seems to think the problem is with FCP. We agree. We’ve done tests with the small app that AJA ships with their drivers. It’s a stand alone capture utility. We can capture frame accurate clips every time when we use the AJA capture utility. When we switch back to FCP all captures are far off the mark. We’re trying to capture simple clips as a test. We’ll log five clips with the in point set on an even second. We use RS-422 control and capture via the HD-SDI on the deck. Regardless of the codec we capture to all shots will be off a random amount from 2 seconds to 2 seconds and 15 frames.
We’ve been told that using firewire as the machine control may help the problem. Problem is our HVR-1500 deck is in the machine room between 15 and 50 feet from the edit rooms. We can’t keep recabling a firewire cable from room to room just for machine control.
Oddly, if we log and capture material form DVCAM tapes the deck works perfectly. Frame accurate every time. There is definitely a problem with FCP and RS-422 machine control of HDV decks. In this case the HVR-1500.Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.
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Thank god I’m not the only one!
I had a suspicion that this was the case, I’m also using the 422 Control! And I haven’t encountered the same problem through firewire. So it seems that since I’m using the Multibridge Pro that it falls back on Apple once again. Since the Deck is new I had the sixth sense that there would be trouble when I bought it. I also have a machine room and don’t even consider having the tape deck firewire’d up!
Thanks for the response
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Has either of you had any luck with this issue? I have an HVR-1500 and have had the same problem. Premiere and Blackmagic Deck Control work perfectly 100% of the time. FCP captures whatever it wants at random. I even made a movie to illustrate the problem I have been experiencing. You can see it here:
https://homepage.mac.com/kenjones/iMovieTheater47.html
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