Brian Conner
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Thanks for the good report, David. I don’t know the answers to those questions. The chart has a row for “GeForce Series 6” and a row for “GeForce Series 7” cards. There is no indication of a date when the page was uploaded.
But it’s good that the combo is working fine for you. It helps me to know that.
Anyone else?
Brian Conner
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Make sure your display is set to Millions of Colors
Brian Conner
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I was just now re-reading this entire thread. I’m thinking I might have misunderstood your post of Oct 11 at 9:00:50pm. If, when you wrote. “manually set the deck control to DV,” you were referring to the iLink Downconvert menu setting that I should have done in the VCR, I misunderstood.
If that’s the case, I could’ve short-circuited the entire nightmare right at the start, and wouldn’t have spent the $148 plus shipping for the Addenda RS-4L.
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Well, my client decided to try this immediately.
It works and he’s thrilled. So am I.
Repeating myself from a previous reply: The one difference between this Device Control Setup and what I first tried as I was building this system is the VCR menu setting for iLink Downconvert. That must be the trick.
Thank you all, and particularly thank you, Gary.
I have told the client to hold onto the Addenda RS-4/L adapter, because we might find a way to get that to work yet.
Brian Conner
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Gary,
Thank you for that reply. I apologize to you for being extremely unclear in explaining publicly about not getting a reply from you. From your reply here and in your private Email, it’s obvious that your previous Email got lost in the Ether, or blocked by an overzealous Email server. I sincerely apologize for giving the wrong impression here on the Cow. It was unintentional, but obviously I failed to communicate clearly.
The Easy Setup folder I sent you has two presets, and you’re referring to the other one. The one I was hoping to get working properly is the one with the Easy Setup name starting with Z. The Device Control on that preset is for using the Control L port from the HDV deck, through the Addenda RS-4/L adapter to the K-Box RS-422 port.
That’s the one that behaves as I described in my reply to David above here.
But, I will try the suggestion you Emailed me. The one difference between that suggestion, and what I had originally tried when I was building this system is the iLink Downconvert setting on the HDV deck. I’ve Emailed the client and told him to try this. He’s in the middle of editing his show, so it might be a few days before he even reads my Email.
Than you, Gary and David.
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David,
I might be misunderstanding you, but the situation with this client is different from what you describe, I think.
He is using an Aja HD10A to convert from component HDV to uncompressed 1080i during the initial capture. He is editing in uncompressed 1080i, and outputting uncompressed 1080i directly to an HDW-S2000 HDCAM deck.
He is capturing large chunks, editing them down, then outputting for a 30 minute program (22 minutes of program, IIRC). To save drive space, after a program is approved and the HDCAM is accepted at OLN, he needs to media manage, retaining the timeline clips with handles.
Everything works great except deck control. The Sony HDV deck (and the Sony HDV camcorder as well) are not controllable. The client can Play, Stop, FF, REV, and set Ins and Outs, but when he captures, the deck cannot find the In point, and after poodling around the In point for a short while, flies off in reverse searching for it. “No communication” pops up below the image in the Log & Capture window.
Gary asked me to Email him the Easy Setups from the client’s G5, including the custom Easy Setups I created for this configuration. I sent it to him, but I assume he’s been traveling or tied up in a big project, because I haven’t heard back from him.
The configuration:
Dual 2.7 G5
Kona2
HD10A converter
Huge Systems 4210 + ATTO FC42XS
Aja HDP converter + 23″ Apple Cinema Display
FCP 5.0.3
v10.4.2
QT 7.0.3
Sony HDV deck
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The problem persists. The client has been too busy editing his first three shows to stop for any more troubleshooting. He’s using Capture Now, but at some point, he’ll need to Media Manage his sequences, so we need to find the cause for the problem.
Gary, have you had the time to try the Easy Setups I Emailed to you?
We’ve swapped out every single piece of the puzzle, except for the G5. And we’ve tried the Kona2 card in all three PCI-X slots.
Anybody have any other ideas?
Brian Conner
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Gary,
I just now Emailed the two Custom Easy Setups to your dot mac account. I trust you haven’t changed it in the past year or two.
Thank you,
Brian
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Yup, I was looking at it wrong, with tired eyes. I thought I was looking at something other than what I was actually looking at. There’s no problem. And I did post back on Apple Discussions.
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False alarm. Never mind. Old age, bad eyes, and who knows what else combined to fool me.
Brian Conner