[Juanjo Mora]

Another option is to get the latest Keyspan drivers for your model of Keyspan and version of MacOS, and reinstall the Keyspan.

Regards,

Juanjo.

[Juanjo Mora]

Hi,

just make sure, when the dialog to configure TimeCoder appears, that in the pulldown menu you’re selecting the correct port on the Keyspan (they usually have two ports) and that the port is connected to the cable that goes to the Betacam machine; I don’t remember right now if the BVW-75 has one or two 9pin RS-422 ports, but if it has two make sure that your cable goes to the one labeled ‘input’.

Then make sure the deck is on, with a cassette in it and the control setting in the front panel is set to REMOTE instead of LOCAL.

If this doesn’t work you may have a deffective Keyspan (probably not your case) or a defective control cable.

As for controlling the DV deck, the setting is DV Control and in the second pulldown menu you select the Make and Model of your DV deck or Camera, just make sure that the firewire cable from the deck is connected to the firewire port IN YOUR Media100 CARD, not on the ports of the Mac.

If your card doesn’t have a FireWire port then you don’t have installed the DV option that allows your system to work with the digital signal directly; you will need to use the analog outputs of your deck or camera and digitize without timecode and deck control. The other option is to get a more expensive DVCAM or DVCPro deck with analog outputs (component) and 9-pin RS-422 control and use TimeCoder to control it as if it were another Betacam deck.

Regards,

Juanjo.

[Juanjo Mora]

Hi,

Maybe it’ll work.

But Producer will only get a 25Mbps signal, that is MiniDV, DVCAM, DVCPro, 4:1:1 -NTSC- (4:2:0 in PAL) quality. Same goes out. So, there goes the high quality of your image if you are using i.e. 50Mbps 4:2:2 Digital Betacam.

I believe, I’m not completely sure, the Media Converter takes care of the Control Protocol and Time Code signals, so Producer will ‘see’ your Beta deck as a FireWire deck.

HTH,

Regards,

Juanjo

[Juanjo Mora]

Hi,

probably the other computer doesn’t has enough throughput to play the video in real time, specially if you digitized/exported yout video at a very high data rate (300KB/frame or Lossless).

Usually you’ll transcode and/or compress your vido so any other machine will be able to paly it without stuttering or stopping.

Maybe you should export your video from Media100 using the DV/DVCPRO codec, or H.264; or transcode to MPEG-1, MPEG-4 using Compressor, FFMPEG, Cleaner, etc. And play around with your quality and frame size settings so you can obtain pleasant results with a quality that satisfies you and/or your clients.

HTH,

Regards,

Juanjo

[Juanjo Mora]

Hi,

you just need to select TimeCoder and make sure the port number where your control cable is connected to the keyspan is the same you choose when you configure the TimeCoder dialog window.

Then in digitize mode you can control your Betacam deck from the keypad and also you will be able to Master To Tape in Insert and Assemble Modes with almost perfect precision, if you need your edits to tape to be frame-accurate you’ll need to pre-stripe the tape with blacks and the time-code you want to use.

HTH,

Regards,

Juanjo

[Juanjo Mora]

Export your content from Media100 using the Animation Codec in its lossless settings:
Animation,
keyframes:all,
Quality:Best
Millions of Colors.

In this way you’ll obtain a very high quality QT Movie with lossless compression :Quality as good as without compression but without the huge filesize.

Then they’ll have the best quality to transcode to mpeg2.

regards,

Jj

[Juanjo Mora]

Floh, thanks for your super fast and kind answer.

I don’t have access to such a deck, all we have at work is Beta SP.

From your answer I guess that test media is not included with Media100 HD, do you know why?

Let me take the opportunity to tell you how much I admire what you have done through all this years for this forum and the Media100 community, you deserve a medal.

Regards,

Jj