why does FCP not like PAL?

[Jeremy Garchow]

What deck and are you sure the deck is setup to downconvert to dv? If the deck is auto mode and the tape is HDV PAL, won’t it be spitting out PAL HDV and not PAL DV?

jeremy

[Walter Biscardi]

FCP works fine in PAL HDV, I cut three shows here all in 1080i/50 with zero issues.

[Jemgurl] “deck VR mode-auto”

Change that to DV.

Check your Downconvert to see if it is turned on.

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[Steve Connor]

Deck needs to be set to DV, make sure you have switched back to PAL as well. FCP has NO problems with PAL, your camera settings are wrong.

[Katie Cooper]

Hi,
I am using the HVR M1OU sony hdv deck.

i.link conv. hdv-dv ON
component 10801/480i

[Katie Cooper]

Hello,
When i switch the deck setting to DV, i get the message “no output image in VCR HDV/DV. Change format.

🙁

[Jeremy Garchow]

Take the tape out of the deck and then try and set this again.

Jeremy

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jemgurl] “Hello,
When i switch the deck setting to DV, i get the message “no output image in VCR HDV/DV. Change format.”

After you switched from NTSC to PAL, did you turn off the deck to let it re-initialize?

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[Neil Sadwelkar]

FCP doesn’t really ‘not like’ PAL. You haven’t made your deck like PAL by leaving it on NTSC.

There are some PAL-specific issues in FCP, but this is not one of them.

Neil

FCP Editor, Mumbai, India.
Completely PAL.