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Strange Occurance
I’ve got a strange RS-422 problem. Capturing from Beta SP RS-422 works just fine. Now, I’m capturing from a DVCPro 50 deck SDI. I shuttle through the footage fine, can capture short clips up to 7 seconds but anything beyond that I get this error “Tape trouble, check VTR, do not attempt to eject tape or use transport without checking VTR first.” I’ve tried capturing from multiple DVCPro tapes and I get the same error. There are no “tape troubles”. My device control is set to AJA IO RS-422.
Can anyone suggest anything–a setting in Final Cut? My deck works fine on our other edit machine (Discreet Edit).
Specs: Final Cut 5, Dual 2.7 Ghz, AJA IO, RAM 4.5 GB.
Thanks,
Krisi -
2 Replies
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You might have to change the rs-422 protocol from Sony to Panasonic. Get in the Device control presets tab of the audio/Video settings preferences. Choose the AJA io: 29.97 NTSC preset, duplicate it, change the name to AJA io: 29.97 Panasonic VTR. In the protocol drop down menu change it from SOny RS-422 to Panasonic RS-422.
Click on the summary tab.
Choose your Capture preset (8 bit, 10 bit, dv , whatever)
Choose your sequence preset (to match your capture preset)
Choose your newly created AJA io: 29.97 Panasonic VTR and click the ‘create easy set up button’
Call it something like AJA io NTSC 8 bit Panasonic VTR, switch out the 8 bit for whatvere codec you are using.
Hope this helps.
Jeremy
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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Thanks Jeremy, I did actually previously change the protocol to panasonic–and it didn’t do anything. I called AJA support, found out I had to download a .txt file and put it in my plugin folder which reverted the protocol to version 4.5. Things worked smoothly after that. Support told me I would only have to remove it out whenever I use Sony protocol, and then move it back in for Panasonic. A pain, but at least it solves the panasonic RS-422 bug. Thanks.
Krisi
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