[Frederic Lumiere]

Jeremy, thanks for taking the time to respond.

Answers to your questions:

– FCP 5.1.4
– AJA Control Panel 3.4
– QT 7.1.6

Audio embedded in SDI (4 channels)

Levels in FCP don’t clip and transfer doesn’t distort 2 out of 3 times… when it distorts, I simply restart it and it works.

I heard a rumor that it might be a memory allocation issue?

Thanks,

Frederic

[Frederic Lumiere]

SOLUTION:

In the HDW-1800 deck:

Enter the maintenance menu:

1/ Alt – f9

2/ MAINT MODE/OTHERS/VANC RX PARAMETER

(For 708 Compliant CC)

Line 1 Line 2 DID SDID
009 572 61 01

3/ Don’t blank any lines

[Frederic Lumiere]

Cleaning the heads seemed to fix the problem.

[Frederic Lumiere]

Works perfectly, thank you!

Codec is intact.

F

[Frederic Lumiere]

Couple things to check:

– Deck should have TC set to EXT
– Edit to tape window should have TC selected (yellow on)

F

[Frederic Lumiere]

Well thanks man. Makes sense.

In the meantime, my solution is to stripe a D5 720p 59.94 tape DF and dump the show without timecode onto it from a 720p 59.94 NDF timeline.

Now I have to deal with HD closed caption and make sure it’s 608 compliant… But that’s a whole other story.

Ahhh… can’t wait to edit in 4K 😉

F

P.S. Life could be worse, I could be on The Lot

[Frederic Lumiere]

Actually, that’s not true anymore.

Television (History Channel Family & others) prefers 24p. (d5 23.98) It’s a universal master and makes going to PAL painless in comparison with 29.97.

Another huge advantage of cutting dvcpro hd in 23.98 is space saving. Less than 50% of 60. I know, Panasonic isn’t using repeat flags but stores the full information for each and every frame (even the repeated ones).

In the HD world, 24p is quickly becoming the defacto.

Frederic