[David Eells]

Have you tried Effect>Expression Controls>Slider Control?

[David Eells]

I’m with you. Apparently it’s been appropriated for the much more common “Group Selected Shapes”. Bah! I want keyboard mapping!!!

[David Eells]

It’s been a long time since I worked with BetaSP, but I think the problem is this. Beta records timecode in two places – VITC and the audio time-code track, and right now they don’t agree. When the tape is moving at normal speed, the deck is reading audio timecode. When the tape is slow or still, the deck reads VITC, and you’re seeing the discrepancy. There should be a switch that tells the deck to read time code as Auto, VITC or audio. You’re in auto now, so it switches to VITC when you stop the tape, and the deck is confused. The quick fix is to force the deck to read audio TC only, but if you re-black the head of the tape the VITC and audio timecode should agree and the problem will go away.

Hope that helps.

[David Eells]

Thanks, Kevin. I removed the CC filters and so far so good.

I’ll be updating to CS3 soon.

[David Eells]

Tell Final Cut to look at card…
Also, don’t install things late at night.

[David Eells]

tried three times to upgrade to 1.8 drivers

Preferences still show 1.4 drivers

MAC OSX 10.4.10
FCP 6.0.1
After Effects 7
Photoshop v8

What’s up with this?

[David Eells]

I think Sean mentioned this earlier in the thread, but as it turns out the easiest and best way was to simply export a Quicktime movie at the current settings. The Avid took it in without any problems and the cadence issue disappeared. Fast, easy, excellent result.

The show is still :06 over because we were editing in an NDF sequence, the only kind available at 24p in FCP.

The more you know…

[David Eells]

Hey Sean

It’s not quite as bad as that. We ingested using Firewire, and the finsihing house will be using Symphony and working in a bigger colorspace. I would have advocated outputting to firewire, but I though I saw in my reading around that FW didn’t make frame accurate edits, and I wasn’t clear that the deck would take the external timecode.

Thanks for your insight and info.

[David Eells]

Which is interesting since I was using raw tape. But I suppose once FCP thought it saw the DF flag my goose was cooked. I could have blacked from the front panel, but I wasn’t familiar with the deck.

Next time.

[David Eells]

And yet it was FCP that wouldn’t accept a NDF value to start blacking the tape…