[Matthew Asher]

Interesting. If the tape was PAL at 25fps, is there a way I could have detected that through the deck interface, or fcp? And would fcp have been able to capture it optimally simply by setting capture/device settings to.. ie 625 PAL 25fps, or would I have needed a PAL deck?

[Matthew Asher]

Doug, thanks.

I never tried setting ins and outs and batch capturing, but yeah, tried several times playing from the deck first. always got that darn “waiting for timecode message”. I had naively tried changing timecode settings on the decks interface but had no luck.

I had to get it done, so I set the device option to “Non-Controllable Device” (even though I was able to control the deck through the remote RS 422 cable), started playing from the deck, and was able to capture it that way.

When I ended up capturing via “Non-controllable device” setting though, the clip ended up with a lot of interlacing artifacts/lines. Even after exporting to a variety of delivery codecs, de-interlaced selected, etc. didnt eliminate those. Also, even though I could see the clip had an audio signal on the meters, I got no audio during playback of captured clip in fcp.

Feel a bit shameful asking about a log and capture issue, esp as most of the related posts are from around 2006, but is there any other input on how I should have captured this beta sp tape to fcp?

My original approach was:

SDI out of the deck into the Kona board, RS 422 remote cable between the two, and a/v out of the deck for a monitor; and capture settings were:
Device control: Aja Kona LHi 525i 29.97 Sony VTR A
Capture Input: Aja Kona LHi 525i 29.97 Uncompressed 10 bit (but I tried several combinations..)