[Bob Zelin]

no one can do an insert edit on a DSR-45, no matter what edit controller you use. There are no flying erase heads in a DSR-45.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

the I/O won’t be your problem – your problem will be with your storage – if you have SCSI or SATA storage (FW will be ok).

bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

I am anxious to see how Bruce adapts to AVID Liquid, since he is an loyal
AVID user.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

This is an unacceptable answer. You MUST REMOVE THE Beta VTR from the control room to test the system. Bring the Beta VTR right next to your MAC to do these tests. We have NO IDEA if you have cabling issues, and cannot determine if there are other things going on. It is typical in EVERY STUDIO, as you expand, to have to RUN NEW, LONGER CABLES. Everyone goes thru this, everyone does this.

Right now, disconnect your Beta machine, bring it next your MAC, and do
these tests without the SD Connect. Then report back your results.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

I work with a BIG game developer, and I cannot directly comment on the LH, as we use the Kona 2. But we take the HD Y Pb Pr off the game, go thru a AJA HD10A to convert to HD-SDI, and this goes into the Kona 2 HD input, as well as an AVID DS system, and AVID Adrenaline HD, with NO PROBLEMS. I will bet money that no one at AJA said anything about not having “SMPTE” whatever that means in relation to this issue. SMPTE standard, SMPTE Time Code, SMPTE what ?

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[Bob Zelin]

Crispy is absolutely correct. Why is the SD Connect in line with your other equipment? Even if you have a good reason to use the SD Connect – for now REMOVE IT FROM YOUR SYSTEM until everything is working correctly. If you have problems, post questions again. If it works directly thru the LHe, but not with the SD Connect – guess what – you have issues with the SD Connect.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Mark –
when you did your first 1″ room, you had an audio mixer in it. I bet you had a Sony MXP-290, or a Soundcraft 200B. These very same mixers will work great with your FCP system (of course, a nice little Mackie or Behringer will do just fine as well).

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[Bob Zelin]

Mr Thrillcat –

you have just powered up your system, you are sitting there, monitoring the
output of your AJA I/O, and you are doing NOTHING, and you hear random pops and clicks coming out of your speakers. You raise the faders on your mixer
from the AJA I/O, and the pops and clicks increase in volume – correct?

You have a defective AJA I/O box. I just had this exact situation. I had the luxury of having 3 systems at this client, and I moved the mystery popping box into another edit room, and the pops and clicks moved with the AJA I/O box. I know how frustrating this can be to diagnose when you only have one system, and one AJA I/O box.

Request another unit.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

You want to feed a Beta VTR and a VHS VCR. The input to the Beta VTR is +4dBu and the input to the VHS VCR is -10dBu. How the HELL are you going to feed the output of the AJA I/O directly into both of these VTR’s without getting distortion at least on your VHS VCR that wants to see an input signal that is 14dB lower than the standard output of the AJA I/O. There ain’t no knobs on the AJA I/O (or the AVID Adrenaline, or anything else).

Some digital audio boards (like the Yamaha series) are actually AUDIO BOARDS that can amplify and attenuate (and route) signals. Your control surface cannot do this. You have received wise advise from this forum. I suggest that you use this advice.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Does anyone know if I can use my good old Sony UVW-1400 BetaSP machine? I need to buy mojo and YUV cable, sure, but what about the Rs232 interface (it’s NOT Rs422 as with the UVW-1800, it’s a different protocol).

REPLY
You need an Addenda SCM/9M adaptor. Go to http://www.addenda.com.
Your good old UVW-1400 was never designed for ANY professional edit system by Sony, Media 100, FCP, or certainly AVID, or anyone else.

How does XPRESS PRO handle analog device control? Does it use the PC-systems legacy serial Rs-232ports, or some crude adapters? –
REPLY –
all AVID products use some “crude” adaptor – what the hell does “crude” adaptor mean anyway? AVID Adrenaline systems use Addenda RS 2/8 adaptors, and current MAC AVID’s use Keyspan USA-28X “crude adaptors” for deck control.
Nothing is native to the computer.

A really dumb question: I take it, I can digitize my YUV source via mojo in SD uncompressed, not just 25 Mbit-DV, right?

Sure – if you have a DRIVE ARRAY that is fast enough. Do you have 4 SCSI drives stripped across both busses of an ATTO card? Then you can do 1:1.
You ain’t doing 1:1 uncompressed HD on a firewire drive, or your internal hard drive.

Bob Zelin