Sony SRW-5500 12 ch. audio

[Juan Salvo]

Set record mode to HDCAM-SR and use and SR tape.

[Nate Adams]

Thank you for your prompt response. It is in SR mode and it is an SR tape. An audio track assigned from FCP as ch 6 would come up on the deck as ch. 2. FCP ch. 7=SR ch. 3. Clearly there’s an assignement issue in the deck because when we do it manually and just crash record to the deck it’s fine. It seems like FCP is just not communicating with the deck prpoerly as it’s not arming the correct channels. We got around the problem currently by setting a long preroll of about 12 seconds. Once the deck gets going and is locked, we pull the deck out of remote, arm tracks 5-8, then drop the deck back into remote all before the actual edit happens (wihtin the preroll). Surprisingly…this worked. Not too cool though. Immediate problem is solved, but long term? I’d like to know why this is happening. It’s an expensive rental so it’s difficult to get time on this deck to tinker.