Synchronize final and Beta deck

[Chris Poisson]

What kind of Beta deck? I use a UVW 1800 with RS422 control, using assemble edit to tape I get my shows spot on every time.

More info from your end would help us help you.

Have a wonderful day.

[Rotem_n]

Hi,
G5, 10.4.6, FCP 5.05, Sony RS-422 deck.

We’ve just installed FCP5.04 and are having a bizarre problem with the playout to tape, we’ve compiled a set of bumpers to lay onto tape the first one starting at 10:00:00:00 with the next coming in at 10:01:00:00 etc. The first bumper starts bang on 10:00:00:00 but from the second bumper onwards the playout some times comes one frame ahead, sometimes a frame before.

Thanks,
R.

[Jmoss76]

I am having the same issue laying to a Sony DVW-500 using a Kona LHe card (have also tried with the Blackmagic SDe version as well) with FCP 5.0.4 on a G5 running 10.4.5. It is extremely random. We will have 30 :30 second spots in a timeline with :30 of black between each, and over the span of the layback to tape, we notice a drop or addition of audio frames to the layback. You can look at the sequence, and no errors are shown. We work around the problem by laying back multiple times in some cases, but as everyone knows this is extremely inefficient. How ideas?

Thanks,
Jason

[Chris Poisson]

There is no such deck as an RS422, that is the control protocol. What deck are you using?

Have a wonderful day.

[Rotem_n]

DVW 500P.
Thanks

[Missdivagirl]

Is FCP set to drop frame or non drop frame? Could this be the issue? I don’t have a solution… just offering a suggestion.

[Rotem_n]

where can I check this?

[Missdivagirl]

look at your timecode… if it appears as 00:00:00:00 (with a colon before the last set of 00’s) then it is non drop frame and you will have no time code interruption. If it appears as 00:00:00;00 with a semi colon before the last set of 00’s then it is drop frame. FCP will not really drop frames, but alter the time. Two timeecode numbers are skipped from the frames counter each minute except for every tenth minute.

If you have the FCP 5 manuals, visit page 26 for more details.

I am not sure if this is the solution… hope it is!

[Jmoss76]

I actaully checked the timecode (drop vs non-drop) the other day. Unfortunately, not the easy fix. Two other things I have heard to try are to make sure the Ref on your deck is set to EXT, and to mixdown your audio before laying to tape. If anyone else has any other ideas, please send them.

Thanks,
Jason

[Andyboy]

I’ve been banging my head with what seems to be the same problem. I’m using FCP 5.0.4. BSP Deck – UVW1800 thru AJA’s IO w-422 interface.

I’ve dig’d a clip with burn-in. The burnin and the timecode reader thru FCP are giving me shifting results. At times, the two match, generally they don’t – as much as 5 frames off. I’ve called AJA, and several posthouses in town with no happy solution. I also have FCP 4.5 running on the same system (not recommended) and it too is having the same problem. i’ve been told to put 4.5 on another driver. Haven’t tried this yet, hoping the problem is elsewhere.