[Justin Gray]

You’re right Jeremy, it is that deck! of course I can bypass the deck, but my BOB only has one component out, which is tied up feeding the beta deck. The only other video out I have is SDI. It’s very limited as you can see, so I would need to buy a DA converter to go from SDI to S or composite to fee my DVD recorder. those converters are a lot of money, I wanted to loop my NLE output through the deck using the composite out to the DVD recorder. Seemed to make a lot of sense, but the stupid deck won’t lock in, even with reference feeding it.

So I think this is the final chapter of my posting. Stupid deck!

– Justin Gray
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[Justin Gray]

This is completely frustrating. I’ve tried everyone’s suggestions and I still get an unstable picture. The closest I came to fixing the problem was to run separate blackburst signals to both the deck and the Kona card. It got rid of the NO REF alarm, but the composite video out image still will not lock. This has to be a deck malfunction. Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

– Justin Gray
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[Justin Gray]

OK, I did what you said: took away the black burst completely, routed the component directly from the Kona box to the deck, made sure both ref terminator switches were set to on, and set the kona card to “Freerun” genlock. Still no change.

– Justin Gray
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[Justin Gray]

thanks for all of the responses. I’ve tried everyones suggestions but I still get the “No REF” alarm on the deck and an unstable picture. Just to be clear, I know that this is not effecting my recording. What I’m trying to do is use the deck in EE mode to feed a DVD recorder, seeing as though all of my Kona outputs are only component. I have a bare bones setup. Component out from the Kona LHe, looping through JVC component monitor to component in on the eta deck. that’s it. I’ve tried to feed reference to the deck using a BSG black sync generator going straight into the ref in and looping through the Kona Bob as Walter suggested, but still no change. Unless I’m really missing something obvious, or the sync generator is bad, It could be a deck problem?

– Justin Gray
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[Justin Gray]

At my shop we shoot almost exclusively in HDV using a JVC GY-HD200U. I digitize footage with a JVC BR-HD50 deck. In this, and most HDV decks there is a menu setting that will “side-cut” the footage and convert it to 4:3 on the fly. I’ve had to do this on many occasions and it works brilliantly. Check your deck menu options and track this feature down. The only problem that you may run into is the framing of the shot. When shooting 16:9 your safe zones are much wider than the are at 4:3. So hopefully the videographer took this into consideration when shooting and the focus of your shot does not get cropped off on the edges. Cheers.

-Justin

[Justin Gray]

Thanks John. Indeed I was able to export lower field and then deinterlace in Squeeze. Thanks again and have a great day. -Justin

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[Justin Gray]

Thanks Chaz. Terrific tip.

-J

[Justin Gray]

CARL, THANKS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH. FINALLY, THANKS TO YOUR SUGGESTION, SUCCESS! THANKS A BUNCH.

-JUSTIN

(SHOUTING INTENTIONAL)

[Justin Gray]

I just visited Zaxwerks troubleshooting page again. Could it have something to do with the fact that I have a dual 23′ Cinema Display system? Perhaps ProAnimator is having trouble working with my video card with this config?

[Justin Gray]

Just use quicktime pro to convert it.