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Tape Trouble Warning via Panasonic Deck
I’ve been having this trouble for some time now. I have a Panasonic AJ-D450 deck hooked up to my FCP system running through an AJA IO. When I try to capture, be it through a batch capture, or capture now I keep getting the same warnings. The first warning to pop up is “Tape Trouble. Check VTR. Do not attempt to eject tape.”, this is followed by a “Capture Now has reached the end of tape. All material has been captured. etc” The third is a dropped frames warning.
I have the Panasonic RS-422 selected in my protocal. We have sent the deck out to Panasonic for maintenance for this problem and it has come back with a clean bill of health. We used another panasonic deck, which worked fine with these settings, we no longer have access to this deck. All help would be appreciated.My system specs are
OSX 10.4
Dual G5 2.0
FCP 5.0
AJA IO
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Apple changed the RS-422 polling interval from FCP 4.5 to version 5.0. This seems to cause trouble in “older” Panasonic decks. AJA released a plug-in that slows down the polling interval in FCP 5. It works great. Email me if you’d like me to send it to you. john_kaley (at) mac (dot) com
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Hey John I placed the file in my Final Cut Plugin folder, trashed my preferences, restarted the CPU. And I’m still experiencing the same problems. Right now i’m using the Panasonic RS-422 protocol, and time source is LTC+VITC. Are there any prefrences that I might be using that may allow this problem to continue?
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If the AJA fix doesn’t work. try using a Keyspan USB adapter instead of the RS-422 port built into the Io. This has fixed a similar issue with my Kona and Decklink cards.
BTW, Apple software engineers claim this is a “hardware” issue, even though it happens on different hardware. Go figure.
Alan Hirshberg
Chief Engineer
Mojo, LLC.
ahirshberg@mojohouse.com
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The only other thing is to make sure you have a high-quality RS-422 cable. Try another cable if you have it. I’m using a Comprehensive RS-422 cable. Also make sure the “use deck search mechanism” is checked. You might also try to make a new device preset from scratch using the Panasonic RS-422 protocol. If I think of anything else, I’ll let you know.
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