[Boomshadows]

Hi john,

I tested it again. If I hit the tone preview button in the Edit to tape windows, and set my deck ref to that, when I finally go on to master, the tone rockets up much louder. So then I need to re-set the deck audio input levels press cancel on the edit to tape and restart.

Is this not what happens in the same situation for you?

Many thanks, Nick

[Boomshadows]

Hi Michael and others,

Thanks for that on the ref tone. Its funny I actually found the -18 standard by trial and error. Its the closest fit to our old tone line up system. However, I if I use the “preview tone” option it is clearly not the -18db reference, it puts out much lower so I have had to discard it, which is kind of annoying since I have to then do an edit to tape that I abort once I have the tones set correctly on the deck.

One further problem…

I am using a DSr 45 sonyDVCam deck, and am using an Aj Kona LS card in the mix as well. When I try and edit back to tape I get the message the “deck failed to set mode”. For a while I thought this was becuase of the “insert timecode” button being lit up because I could not seem to switch it off. Then going back to the SP on the RS422 didi take it off and I still got the same message. Actaully, thinking about it, when the insert timecode was on FCp just ignored me when I dropped the sequence on the assemble dropbox. So FCP only paid attention when that button was off… but how do I switch it off? Hmmm, two things going here I guess.

Thanks for your time, much appreciated.