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Eric D.
November 18, 2009 at 9:45 pm in reply to: Editing Contest

Hi Grin,

This is a great resource for editors, so I apologize if I broke the rules. That was not my intention. Sorry to waste your time.

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Eric D.
November 17, 2009 at 7:06 pm in reply to: Editing Contest

I use this site all the time, and have even posted helpful tips for others, so no, this is not spam. Sorry you took offense, man.
Eric D.
October 14, 2005 at 8:26 pm in reply to: Random Square pixels printing to Panasonic aj1200a

So I took the deck down to Panasonic this morning. The repair tech, Keim, actually opened up @ 7am (That’s 2 hrs early – Talk about good customer service, this guy is awesome!) to check the deck for me. He played my tapes (the ones that seemingly had the problem) in another deck and, guess what no pixels. Then he tried my deck. Same thing. No pixels. He must think I’m crazy! The only explanation is that there was possible a power problem. Not grounded correctly. Also, I think the deck had been left on over night and was on all day.

I have a ESE ES-219A blackburst gen. Will that do?

I did switch over to an Easy Setup for DVCPro HD before trying to lay out to tape via Firewire and I did change the Video Input on the deck to Firewire In.

I still can’t figure out why I am having this problem with the audio drop and buzz. Even on the timeline I get audio and video to play for about 3 seconds and then the audio will drop out and I get a continuous buzz. The video continues to play. When I switch back to HDSDI out, it plays fine. Maybe I’ve got some weird magnetic field going through here!

Thanks,

Eric
Eric D.
October 14, 2005 at 8:26 pm in reply to: Random Square pixels printing to Panasonic aj1200a

So I took the deck down to Panasonic this morning. The repair tech, Keim, actually opened up @ 7am (That’s 2 hrs early – Talk about good customer service, this guy is awesome!) to check the deck for me. He played my tapes (the ones that seemingly had the problem) in another deck and, guess what no pixels. Then he tried my deck. Same thing. No pixels. He must think I’m crazy! The only explanation is that there was possible a power problem. Not grounded correctly. Also, I think the deck had been left on over night and was on all day.

I have a ESE ES-219A blackburst gen. Will that do?

I did switch over to an Easy Setup for DVCPro HD before trying to lay out to tape via Firewire and I did change the Video Input on the deck to Firewire In.

I still can’t figure out why I am having this problem with the audio drop and buzz. Even on the timeline I get audio and video to play for about 3 seconds and then the audio will drop out and I get a continuous buzz. The video continues to play. When I switch back to HDSDI out, it plays fine. Maybe I’ve got some weird magnetic field going through here!

Thanks,

Eric
Eric D.
October 14, 2005 at 8:09 pm in reply to: Random Square pixels printing to Panasonic aj1200a

I will be switching to FW output and Serial control now! I just need to figure out this audio drop. Even when I play it on the time line, I get full audio/video playing for about 3 seconds and then the audio drops out. Weird!
Eric D.
October 14, 2005 at 2:28 am in reply to: Random Square pixels printing to Panasonic aj1200a

More about the square pixels:

They are definitly random, however there is at least one shot that seems to glitch every time. On this shot it happens when I output HDSDI or Firewire (with the dropped audio!).
Eric D.
October 14, 2005 at 2:22 am in reply to: Random Square pixels printing to Panasonic aj1200a

More about what I said about trying to lay to tape via firewire:

I tried moving media to an interna drive and it does the same thing. Video will play for about 3 seconds and then the audio drops out and there is the constant buzz. Also, the video seems to lag (once I start and stop a couple of times it gets up to speed and plays, but then the audio drops).

Now it seems I have 2 situations working against me and a deadline of about 2 days ago!!!
Eric D.
October 14, 2005 at 1:25 am in reply to: Random Square pixels printing to Panasonic aj1200a

To be honest I think I set it up this way because I read about this setup (Output HDSDI w/ Firewire Deck control) either here on the Cow or somewhere else. I do Capture using Firewire, so if outputing using firewire is better I will switch. However, I did just try to output via firewire (To see if I was getting the same pixel prob.) and video and audio will play for about 5 seconds and then the audio goes to a continuous buzz, while the video continues, Huh??? Half stacked XServe problem? Now what’s going on?

I purchased this deck a few months back. I was the one who reported the problem with the error 52 & 53 about a month ago. I have had the deck in to Panasonic twice now for mechanical problems unrelated to this.

I’m not feeding any reference into it. How can I feed a reference signal into it?

Reference in on the Kona Control Panel is set to Free Run, although I don’t think I have anything connected to it. How should I patch this?

Thanks,

Eric
Eric D.
May 25, 2005 at 6:33 am in reply to: I keep getting “Searching for Timecode Break”

Problem is right! I took your advice and hit escape every time and I got through all 10 tapes going with the DVCPro HD setting in FCP. I guess the Xserve raid needs to be full (mine is only half full) in order to go uncompressed 10 bit.

Thanks for the help!

Eric