[Jerry Alto]

Tom- You hit the nail on the head with the format wars and I have my opinion of where it started. Sony had a lock on the production standard with Betacam. Then they became greedy.

Hey guys we’ve got a lock on the market so let’s roll out Digital Betacam. Let’s see. What shall we charge for our entry level DigiBeta camera…… HOW ABOUT $70,000 (without a lens)!

Talk about opening Pandora’s Box on formats!

The rest is history. Oh, and then on the consumer level…. wasn’t there a product called Walkman?

I feel better now.

Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Nayim- Search the term: Prores.

Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Wayne- OK, so your not digitizing…. you are going out to tape. Two quick things to check:

1. You may have a firewire conflict. Disconnect all other firewire devices that might be on the same bus.
I see from your profile that you have a AJA i/o LA. That could be the problem. You may need to disconnect it while you go out to tape via firewire. We had to install a cheap firewire PCI card to give us a discreet firewire bus for our deck.

2. You may have a mismatch between your timeline and your output settings. Go to Audio/Video Settings>check the ‘different output for Edit to Tape/Print to Video’. Then choose the proper settings for both your audio and video.

HTH,
Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Wayne- I’m confused. Is your tape HDV and you are trying to downcovert or do you have a DV tape that you are trying to bring into FCP as DV? If it is a DV tape close out of FCP, eject the tape, turn off the deck , then turn the deck back on and change the mode of the deck to match the tape and insert the tape. Now launch FCP and choose the proper Easy Setup. The main thing here is for some reason you have to be closed out of FCP when you do all of your deck settings.

HTH,
Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Earl- As Shane says you can’t use Edit to Tape with HDV. You can use Print to Video and your HDV tape will have time code. I believe you can preset your time code in the 1500 then you add bars, black and slate in the Print to Video dialog box. FCP will need to go through a conforming process before it asks you to do a hard record on the deck. Tedious but you’ll have an HDV master with time code.

HTH,

Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Stig- I see no info on your system but my first guess is that there is a reference signal issue.

Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Scott- First- Turn off deck and disconnect firewire cable. Turn on deck and go to deck menu and choose HDV (not auto or DV). Turn iLink down convert to off. Turn off the deck.

Quit out of Final Cut Pro (Final Cut cannot be running while you mount the deck for HDV.)

Dump your FCP preferences.

Connect your firewire cable to a an independent firewire bus (no other firewire devices can be connected)>Turn on your deck.

Go to Apple icon (upper left of screen)>more info>firewire devices. Can you see your deck? Do not proceed until your computer sees the camera/deck.

If the computer sees the deck launch FCP. Choose Easy Setup that matches your recorded format exactly.

HTH,
Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Matthew- We found in our workflow that it was best to come out of the camera SD component and digitize in 8-bit uncompressed with the IOLA. We let the camera/deck do the hardware downconversion. Then in FCP we had minimal rendering and it was component out to the Beta deck. As mentioned before the 7.5 ire needs to be there but that can be set in the IO. The system can be easily checked by digitizing bars from the Beta deck and putting them on the vectorscope as Walter suggests.

HTH,
Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Mike- You might want to try the KONA forum.
Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Jerry Alto]

Kenny- Things to check;
-Connect your firewire cable to a an independent firewire bus (no other firewire devices can be connected)
Test
-Go into Audio/Video settings> capture>change the drop/non-drop setting
Test
-Go to Audio/Video settings>capture>change firewire control protocols ’till you find one that works then do yourself a favor and make a custom Easy Setup.

HTH,
Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700