Sony Beta SX DNW-A45 and FCP/Decklink

[Steve Connor]

It only does assemble edits as far as I remember.

[Damon Surzyshyn]

I did hear somethig about having to dump to the hard drive and then to tape if you wanted frame accurate in points on your edits as well.

Thanks

Damon

[Mark Maness]

[Damon Surzyshyn] “Anyone familiar with this deck and any ‘gotchas’ that may arise when using them?”

As far as I know, you shouldn’t have any issues with this deck. At my previous place of employment, we used these very machines with Media100s (that tells you how long ago this was). And the machine performed flawlessly. As for insert edits… I can’t answer this one because we never used the machines in an insert edit mode. But my rule of thumb is, if the machine is able to do insert edits on the machine, it will most likely do insert edits in FCP.

[Damon Surzyshyn] “I currently have a Sony UVW-1800 but it does not record or playback closed captioning (important) “

Why does it not? We have the same machine we use every week to make BetaSP dubs for broadcast with closed captioning. As a matter of fact, if you capture from this deck and any deck that has a tape with closed captioning embedded on it, the captured footage WILL have the closed captioning emmbedded in FCP, too. Currently, I don’t think there is any broadcast deck that will show you your closed captioning. You will need a decoder for this. I use a cheapo Wal-Mart tv for just this purpose, besides, this is what most people will watch your programs on.

[Damon Surzyshyn] “I’m tired of screwing around with analog sync (especially when outputting HD video that the Decklink is down-converting).”

Can you explain thin one better? Are you talking about house sync (reference video) or audio sync issues?

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