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RS-422 transport controller for FCP and external multitrack?
Hey all,
Please forgive me if I don’t phrase something right, but this is something new for me…
I’ve got a church that wants to control a Tascam X-48 multitrack deck and a Mac Pro running FCP 6.0. What they’d like to do is be able to jog/shuttle both the multitrack and FCP together so they can remix worship in post for broadcast and DVD distribution. They have a Blackmagic Sync generator feeding blackburst to both machines.
Anyone know of an RS-422 controller that can do the job?
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To control FCP via 422 means FCP would need to do VTR emulation which it doesn’t. https://www.virtualvtr.com/ has a product that allows VTR emulation of quicktime not necessarily FCP.
However FCP can control a machine via 422, and several audio devices will mimic a BVW75 control. I have run my Alesis M20 via FCP locked to timeline and blackburst.
Edit to tape will be a different situation in this instance if the source is still on your HardDisk recorder
you’ll not be able to record to a third device in insert or assemble via FCP. You may be able to slave SMPTE from a track to your console and it can perform the edit to a device if the console is so equipped but you’re pretty much looking at a crash recordor manual assemble on the third device, then playout of the FCP/hard disk recorder setup.Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN -
We’ve tried setting FCP up to control the x-48 via rs-422, but when we go into Log and Capture and hit Capture Now, it waits for timecode from the x-48. If we hit record on the x-48, FCP will record 16 or 17 frames and give us an “end of tape” error.
They’d like to be able to sync FCP and the x-48 so that when they start the capture on FCP, it starts the multitrack recording. Then when they edit/playback, it would shuttle the multitrack in time with the timeline on FCP. Is that even possible?
Thanks.
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the multitrack has to be rolling prior to hitting capture now. It must also be capable of passing TC down the 422 line for FCP to see the code.
As far as rolling the deck while playing or editing sequences in FCP, that is not a normal function for FCP. it’s not like a linear situation where an edit controller is engaging play on several machines. It’s an injest or output situation with FCP. It wants to edit material captured by it and or output a sequence it edited from captured material.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish?Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN
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