Gary Milligan
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If you’re using reference files for your source footage, try substituting them with the actual QuickTime files. Good luck!
This is me – this is what I do – https://web.mac.com/garymmw
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If you have a camera that accepts A/V-in from the VHS, and connects to your Mac via firewire, then you have basically what you need.
HTH
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The only time my laptop won’t wake is when the battery is too low. What are you doing to try and wake it up?
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Hello Marcus,
My first thought was “Here we go again!… strike two for CalDigit.”. After setting up the S2VR HD unit and powering everything on, the drive did not even show up on my desktop. Needless to say, I was starting to think I had wasted $. However, in the end it was another case of operator error…. it turned out to be an improperly seated cable between the hard drive and the card. Things now appear to be working as they should. The unit ran for a few hours without the temperature going above 34C. As an experiment I then added the original drive into the mix and within a couple of minutes the temperature reading for that one was above the replacement unit and continued to rise… and the S2VR system fan displayed a “warning”… definitely a defective unit.
So the short story is… CalDigit came to the rescue for me. Hopefully they’ll correct your problem as well before too long. Good luck.
Gary
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Hi Marcus,
Once I finish writing this post I’m going to begin work on setting up my replacement CalDigit S2VR HD 5TB unit which finally arrived just last evening. I too had a problem with the drive from day one which I attributed to a heat issue. When I first got the unit and set it up as per the instructions (a fairly straightforward and easy process), I was mystified by the S2VR Configuration Manager always showing a system fan warning. The fan was definitely working – more fan noise was something I was trying to avoid in my set-up but I guess it unfortunately can’t be avoided when we start dealing with high performance drives. Over the next couple of hours I left the unit powered up but idle and periodically opened the Manager to monitor the temperature. At one point, as it approached 60?, I was unable to open the Manager at all, so I thought I would do the old standby and repair permissions and verify disk – and saw that the unit didn’t show up in the list of drives. So I then tried opening the disk window from the finder and watched the spinning beach ball for a couple of minutes before deciding that yes, something is definitely not right. Time to restart I thought – except I couldn’t do that either! Had to do a hard quit (hold the power button until the system shut down). Re-started and things seemed okay for a while but because the temperature was still up there, it wasn’t long before I got a repeat of the system freeze. I then left the CalDigit powered down (to give it a chance to cool) and restarted – everything ran normally. Later in the day I repeated the exercise with the same results – a system freeze. I contacted CalDigit tech support and after a few questions & answers, they had no hesitation in arranging for a complete replacement unit for me. I should know in a few hours if my problem persists- I’ll let you know how it turns out. I did notice during all this that the Configuration Manager is a PPC app. I suspect this may have something to do with it- especially since you mentioned CalDigit tech support was pointing towards OS versions. When I was asked about which version I am using (10.4.11) there was no indication that it could be an issue. Hopefully they’re coming out with a Universal version soon.
Good luck with your problem – I’m crossing my fingers for seeing mine resolved.
Gary
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Unless you have a specific reason not to update, OS 10.4.11 is available – that may help, but quite honestly, I don’t know for a fact that it will. You might also try disconnecting the CalDigit and any other external peripherals and run it that way for a while to see if you still have problems. Did you install anything around the same time the problem started?
HTH
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When I made the switch from OS 9 to OS X a few years back, I ran into a problem with my scanner software which was quickly remedied after I found VueScan. A great piece of work and great support! Definitely worth the $40 one-time-only fee. Try it, and chances are you’ll not use anything else. HTH.
https://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
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Have you tried repairing your permissions? If not, open Disk Utility and go from there. HTH.
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[Floh] “Plus, for NTSC you have to crop from 720*486 to 720*480, removing some lines from the top and bottom of the image. I am not really sure about the cropping and field order settings for NTSC, since e.g. cropping 3 lines would reverse the field order of your incoming signal. I would recommend doing some short tests for NTSC footage”
I may be wrong on this but I think when BitVice crops it takes 6 lines off the bottom – you can’t customize this setting – probably to avoid inadvertently reversing the field order.
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[Bmoneymedia] “Well, I don’t find that i have the option to adjust setting like these in Media 100. All I see is the Analog Pedistal option at 0 or 7.5. Does this only effect video input?”
As far as I know it only affects the video input.
I’ve not tried this myself, but what if you were to import your timeline into a project that has the Video Input preferences set to 0 IRE and then exported from there?
What version of Media 100 are you using? How are you monitoring the video levels in your timeline?