Timecode overwrite problems with FCP and PVW2800

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Trevor,

Kristian tells me you have also tried creating a fresh account in Mac OS X and the problem still persists so that doesn’t sound like a settings problem. It’s weird because we have other customers running the PVW2800 without reporting this issue.

Can you run a comparison test by using Blackmagic Deck Control to record to tape. Does it cause the same problem? This will tell us if the issue is confined to FCP or more general.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Trevor Kinsey]

OK. I haven’t used Blackmagic Deck Control so it might take me a little while to work it out.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

OK Luke.

Insert seems to work fine with Blackmagic Deck Control. The Timecode Insert light on the deck does not light up and timecode is not overwritten. In FCP the Timecode Insert light on the deck comes on and timecode is overwritten. I suspect it is an FCP bug.

Regards,

Trevor

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Trevor,

It might well be an FCP bug but it’s hard to understand why it would only be affecting you and there are no other reports of the problem in this forum as far as I’ve heard.

Do you have another Mac on which you could try this same test?

When you perform your test, do you keep using the same project file or have you tried with a fresh project? It is possible the bug is confined to one project file and creating a fresh project might clear it.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Trevor Kinsey]

Hi Luke,
I have a second almost identical machine (it is a few months older and has been upgraded from FCP4.5 rather than being a clean install of FCP5). Both machines behave in the same way and both do it with different projects.

I wonder if many other people use their systems in the same way as us. Our habits are partly inhereted from linear edit suite days and with previously using a UVW1800 as well as the PVW. The UVW doesn’t do a good job of picking up timecode on an assemble edit. We also do a bit of dropping titles back onto source tapes at the beginning of a program.

If you only do assemble edits and/or are religious about resetting the recorder to regen timecode after blacking a tape you might not notice the problem.

I guess if you use SDI to edit back to tape the issue might be different too (oh for a Digi Beta deck).

Regards,

Trevor.

PS. I have posted on the Apple Final Cut forum to see if I get any response there.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Trevor,

That’s a good idea to post on the FCP forum to cover the possibility of it being an FCP 5.x bug. Hopefully other PVW2800 users in this or the FCP forum might respond to your post and let you know if they are seeing the problem.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Marco Pulvirenti]

Hi Trevor / Luke

FYI
We have the exact same issue with our system.
When inserting from FCP to our PVW2800, even if timecode is deselected, is still inserts timecode.

Haven’t tried it from Deck control yet.

BTW
FCP5.02; DP2.7; Decklink HDPro

Marco

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marco pulvirenti

http://www.rhubarb.tv

durban, south africa

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Trevor and Marco,

Please update to FCP 5.0.3 and let me know if this problem continues. If so, I will mention it to Apple in our weekly meeting and see if they have any suggestions for you.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Marco Pulvirenti]

Hi Luke

I had already installed FCP 5.03 – there was no difference.

Marco

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marco pulvirenti

http://www.rhubarb.tv

durban, south africa