James Orlowski
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[Jeron Coolman] “I only suggested an analog capture without the RS-232 as a troubleshooting exercise, not as a solution.”
“One-off”, single captures tend to be fine. It’s the batch capturing process that sometimes result in a BSOD.
Unfortunately, performing single captures of a large project is very tedious, and of course, would prove to be impossible should the project be resurrected for revisions at a later time when the original video files have long-since been deleted.
We did try to set the video/audio input from the SD-SDI port, and the DECK CONTROL be the Firewire (this configuration works fine with our Sony DSR-2000A DVCAM deck) but this Panasonic doesn’t seem to play nice with any of our IEEE-1394 ports. This apparently is a widespread issue, as I found someone else’s post that describes Firewire problems with this HD-1400 deck:
https://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?p=747979#post747979
Come on, Panasonic; can’t you make a standardized compatible Firewire option? Sony can. So should you.
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We’ve been doing a LOT of troubleshooting with this problem, and have found out a few interesting things:
If we use this deck to capture (via SD-SDI) a DVCAM or DVCPRO tape with 720×486/480 footage, it works perfectly with batch capturing.
But…
If we use this deck to capture (via SD-SDI) a DVCPRO tape with 1280×720 footage, it tends to fail at some point in the batch capture with a BSOD.
So, something’s up here. Could the deck be outputting an incompatible down-converted 1280×720 signal for the AJA Xena LH card? Why else, then, can 720×480/486 footage from the same SD-SDI port be captured properly and without fail?
Perhaps its the embedded audio? Who knows.
We’re going to attempt a “true” 1280×720 HD job soon to see if Premiere can successfully batch capture footage from the HD-SDI port.
Odd.
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[Jeron Coolman] “Can you “crash-capture” via component-in without the RS-422 deck control by clicking record in the application and pressing play on the deck? That would eliminate any “deck-specific” items.”
I think that’ll work, but this isn’t a solution, as that footage can’t be easily recaptured in a batch at a future time.
It has to be a RS-232 issue, since I can’t reliably capture via component.
It should also be noted that this doesn’t happen with EVERY clip, only “random” clips. So capturing can be done, but you’ll never know exactly when you’ll get the BSOD. You’ll only know that “it’s coming.”
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I thought of using Machina last night as an alternative to capturing, but can Machina do batch captures, or only one-at-a-time capture?
If it does batches, I can’t for the life of me see how or where.
We capture 99.9% of our HD footage as SD via the SD-SDI out on the deck.
We capture everything as MOV files.
I’ve done some more searching, and apparently, this deck doesn’t “play well” with a lot of systems. Looks like it’s only compatible with Final Cut Pro, Canopus, Avid, and Matrox. And if you want to capture via IEEE-1394, your choices are just as few.
Look at this IEEE-1394 compatibility chart for this deck:
https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/ieee1394/index.html
No wonder why I can’t get this deck to work with ANY of our machines. Even my MacBook won’t properly see it. (It controls the deck, but no video is shown, and Premiere states the “camera is off-line”.)
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The way I do it for one of my sites (https://www.thespotlot.com) is to export a high-rez movie from Premiere, then use Sorenson Squeeze to make the Flash FLV file.
Sorenson Squeeze will export a wide array of file formats.
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If I capture with Scenalyzer, can the files be imported into Premiere? If so, how would Premiere handle the footage?
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Not that this helps with your current issues, but how is CS3 with new projects?
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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
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Thanks for the tip and the link.
I tried it, but my titler still defaults to Microsoft San Serif regardless of what style I “Set as default…”.
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FWIW, we’re still having intermittent “black” issues with one of our CS2, LS, BOXX Workstations. What’s puzzling is that it truly appears to be completely random.
To refresh, sometimes, renders play BLACK from the timeline on our external SDI monitor. Audio is not affected. It also appears to happen on all sorts of types of clips.
Initially, I thought it was a 480 vs 486 issue, or a DV vs MOV issue, but it truly seems to happen randomly. In fact, projects that were fine a few days ago could have issues when items are modified and re-rendered.
We updates the drivers on that LS workstation to 3.0, and we’ll see how things go.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Perhaps this is a hardware issue with the card?
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Thanks. I’m actually a little leery updating the drivers from 2.6 to 3.0. Aside from a few [annoying but tolerable] bugs, my system works well. I don’t want to upgrade to fix these little issues and get a whole new set to then deal with.
If I were to upgrade to 3.0, what’s the procedure? Specifically how it relates to ALSO upgrading to CS3?