Luke Lindhjem
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I really wish that were the case, Jeremy. FCP seems to be changing the setting on the deck under LOCAL ENA from ENA to ST&EJ automatically, as I mentioned before. This is what’s causing the tape to be striped with nondrop timecode. As we’ve found, the workaround is to stripe the tape with sync from the deck and bypass FCP altogether. I’d like to take this a step further to see where the problem originates–whether it’s FCP, firmware on the K-box, or firmware on the AJ-SD930.
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Luke -
Right, that’s exactly what I’ve done. What I was asking is if anyone else has encountered this problem in FCP? Can anyone from Panasonic, AJA or Apple weigh in on this? Could it be a firmware issue?
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Luke -
Once drop frame timecode is actually striped on the tape the timecode matches up just fine–so I’m not convinced calibration is the issue. From the Edit to Tape window in FCP, I’ve clicked on the Black and Code button, selected ‘AJA Kona2: DVCPRO 50 29.97’, then checked the drop frame box–with starting timecode at 00 58 00;02. The Panasonic AJ-SD930 deck, even though it is set up for DF (DF MODE 0000 under No.509 menu setting, with LOCAL ENA 0002 ENA under No.001), then stripes the tape with non-drop timecode. After this happened more than once, I looked at Menu No.001 on the deck and found that the LOCAL ENA setting had changed from 0002 ENA to 0001 ST&EJ (Only the STOP and EJECT buttons can be operated). According to Panasonic’s manual, drop frame mode is valid only when the CONTROL switch is set to LOCAL or the setup menu No.001 (LOCAL ENA) is set to ENA. It seems that FCP is somehow automatically changing this setting on the deck in order to control the deck, thereby striping the tape with nondrop timecode. Would love to hear if anyone has experienced this…
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Another good point. What happened was I had blacked the tape using the Edit to Tape window in FCP using Current Settings and making sure the ‘drop frame’ box was checked. Since I was suspicious that the tape itself was non-drop, I blacked a new tape using the INT SG of the deck with drop frame timecode. This worked just fine. What I haven’t figured out–and what I don’t really have time to figure out at this point, is why FCP would’ve blacked a tape with non-drop timecode when I specifically told it to use drop frame on 2 separate occassions. Ugh. Thanks for your help Jeremy.
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Yep. Tried that but it didn’t change anything. I’m suspicious that even though I’m blacking the tape with drop frame timecode it’s actually writing non-drop timecode to the tape. That seems to be the only logical solution to me, yet I’ve triple-checked that the deck is set to DF in the menu and I’ve blacked a brand new tape. Any other thoughts?
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Luke