[David Timar]

Hi Tim,

Interesting. I just found a small app called DGIndex. This confirmed that the timecode DOES make it out into the M2T files. It’s the damn Sony Vegas that cannot read it. Grrrr… I have to write Sony. What the heck, do they think everybody only owns a Sony?

🙂

Thanks
David

[David Timar]

Hi Tim,

🙂 Since you are Mac guy, you work with FCP and mov files. In the Windows world, it’s either mov or m2t really. I guess I can try to capture mov with some other capture application, but I just don’t get it. I used HDVSplit and another smaller standalone application to do nothing more than capture the incoming video from the camera, and so far none of them recorded the timecode that was coming from the camera (even though they saw it). I guess I can try Premiere 3 to do the capturing, but I am not sure it would produce a different result. Also, I just don’t want to believe that no other JVC users who edit on a Windows machine, have never come across this problem.

David

[David Timar]

Hello Tim,

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately that’s not really the case. Let’s forget the fact that we also record sometimes to an external HDD on the camera.

If I record footage with the camera, and I want that footage captured onto my computer, what do I have to do to have the original timecode (seen and recorded on the tape) to actually make it on the captured digital file (M2T)?

As I’ve said, my situation is clearly odd, since we have 3 JVC cameras, all of them recording the timecode, but we cannot seem to get these recorded timecodes to ever making it on any file that we digitally capture from the camera.

This is not something we are messsing up I think, since we tried resetting the camera many times, tried various capture applications, but even then, nothing. Paralell to this we use a SONY FX1 camera, and we never such problems. We pop the tape in the camera, hook it up to the computer via Firewire, open Sony Vegas and capture. The captured files ALL have the same timecode that was on the captured tapes.

What would you use to capture footage from a JVC camera?

Thanks
David

[David Timar]

Movica

[David Timar]

This is getting interesting. I tried changing the temp folder, changing the Video Preview memory allocation from 0-1024, rendering to different drives/partitions.

Same problem at different times, PLUS now I was trying to render the first 2 minutes of a completely different project, and I get a ‘Low on memory’ message. And this is on a clean Windows XP Pro install, 3GB RAM (tested with latest Memtest), 4GB of Windows pagefile, rendering to a drive with 100GB free space, and my Vegas temp folder set on a drive with another 100GB of free space.

I am getting frustrated. What the hell is Vegas actually doing when rendering? Are there any software engineers from Sony reading these forums? Why isn’t there a clear error and action log in Vegas to debug such problems?

Anybody had anything similar?

Thanks
David

[David Timar]

Hello Edward,

In that case, is there a way to apply a preset to all text events on a timeline?

Also, I still don’t understand how the presets that come with Vegas, if applied to a text, DO change the attributes of that text, BUT not the text itself. When I save a text preset, and apply it to another text event, it overwrites the text itself, making the preset pretty much useless.

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks
David

[David Timar]

Hello Mike,

To the best of my knowledge Subtext doesn’t actually take text media objects on a timeline and converts them. It does that with regions.

Or am I wrong?

Thanks
David

[David Timar]

Oops. In case you don’t want to post the price here, send me a letter to tdavid232 AT gmail.com .

Thanks

[David Timar]

Just an update. I found out this is a firmware issue.

[David Timar]

HELP! DOES ANYBODY HAVE AN EMAIL OR PHONE NUMBER FOR JVC IN EUROPE (NOT A DEALERSHIP)?

This is insane. We took our JVC into the Hungarian Dealership, and after 7 days of exchanging emails with the JVC in Germany, they said that our problems are firmware related, but JVC hasn’t released a new firmware to fix these issues.

I simply cannot believe this. I cannot believe these problems are on our camera ONLY. I know I have seen many posts on forums regarding the same problems. What the heck is wrong with JVC?

What do you guys think? Does JVC know what firmware I have on the camera, from the serial number? If so, does anybody know a contact email or phone number, where I can get a straight answer directly from JVC, saying that the firmware I am running is really the latest.

ANY help is appreciated.

Thanks.
David