[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

He probably wants it for the same reason I do – I have an Xpress dongle full-time for my laptop and my MC dongle only part-time because it is usually running my desktop at the office. When cutting at home, I use the Xpress dongle unless the MC one is available. Does anyone know if this is OK to do on a Mac?

Kim

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

Thanks Evan!

I’d greatly appreciate it if you would post the exact settings when you get a chance.

Kim

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

Thank you DW,

I have practically memorized that manual! First I had a loose firewire board, which had me trying every menu configuration before I ruled it a board problem. Secondly I discovered that you can downconvert via firewire to FCPro wQuite easily but it will not work in Avid express Pro. (at least not to DV, I have not tested DV50). Now I am trying to get it to dub to a DSR-40. At one point I had a strobing picture, audio and no TC, but now all I get is E-92. My question is – has anyone had it successfully downconverting to a DSR-40?

Kim

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

I can downconvert to FCPro as well, but as soon as I hook up my deck I get E-92. Has anyone been able to downconvert to a deck via firewire without getting E-92? If so, what deck?
Kim

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

Thanks for everyone’s help. I was forgetting about 894 and set it correctly. I also had to adjust 892 to return a DV signal. Oddly enough it did not matter what 880 was set on.

My problem seems to be the Avid/deck interface. Is successfully downconverted to a DV deck and to FCPro, but had no luck capturing in Avid. Has anyone had any luck with Avid Express Pro 5.7?

Kim

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

Thanks Gary,

That answers my question regarding an “obscure” setting. I have adjusted all of those settings as per the manual’s instructions, but I didn’t do the power cycling, other than the autocycling that the deck does. I will attempt it again, cycling the power of both the deck and the Avid as suggested.

Kim

Kimberlee McTaggart Editing Limited
1657 Barrington Street Suite 217/218
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

Gary,
Sorry if my post sounded snide (promting your “read the manual” reply!), but in trying to figure out my problem, I was surprised to see so many other posts with the same problem. I have studied the manual extensively due to a loose firewire board (I thought the problem was a setting). Given that others have had the same problem, I figured that there must be some obscure setting that we are missing. “We” includes our local Panasonic rep. Having said that, I have already tried every configuration of the 020-023 settings. The SDI downconvert works just fine. What particular settings in the 600 menu should I be looking at? I didn’t see any that could affect firewiredownconvert, other than 620 format, but that shouldn’t affect whether or not I get an image.

Any help would be appreciated. I am the first to admit that problems are 95% operator error so I like to eliminate every possible user error before I surrender to the techs (who are 1000 miles away!)
Kim

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

I cannot get it to work either!!
Kim

[Kimberlee Mctaggart]

I, apparently like many others, have tried everything to get a downconverted image into my Avid Express Pro via firewire. I could not make it happen and neither could one of my rental clients. If this really does work, what is the trick??!!

Kim