[Michael Escher]

[Juan Salvo] “Is there a input control app similar to what AJA has where I need to tell the card that I am coming in via analog component?”

yes it’s in the system prefs. under decklink.”

That fixed it. I seem to remember that I did something akin to this when I set up the machine for media composer. I guess I just forgot when I did the set up for FCP. It’s all better now 😉

Thanks Juan!

Best,

Michael

[Michael Escher]

Hey Juan!

Thanks for taking the time to answer. Actually, the deck plays out via analog BNC component hookups and I am using its RS-422 controller to interface with it via both the Avid set up as well as Final Cut Pro. And those component analog cables are hooked up to the analog hookups on the Blackmagic card. That is the way it works perfectly to ingest video on Avid media composer, and until recently, it was the way I was ingesting media on FCP 7 with the Aja card. I’ve never used the JVC BR-HD50 deck to capture via firewire although it apparently does have a large firewire 400 port on the back.

And the video “easy set up” is, as far as I can tell, the virtually same one (analog in, same 720p HDV codec, data rate, frame rate, etc.) that I used when I was on the AJA card, except now the easy setup reads “Blackmagic” rather than “AJA”. This probably has nothing to do with my problems getting my video into the computer via FCP 7 and the Blackmagic card, but I did notice a far smaller list of easy setups than I did when I had the AJA card installed, maybe 15-20 as opposed to 50 or so when I had the AJA Kona LHe card installed. I thought somehow there would be more since the AJA card has the ability to do 4-4-4 sampling, but perhaps I am wrong here…

Is there a input control app similar to what AJA has where I need to tell the card that I am coming in via analog component?

Thanks again for anyone who can provide some answers!

Best,

Michael E.

[Michael Escher]

I contacted AJA this morning and was instructed to use the “AJA Uninstaller” and reinstall the AJA driver. It solved the problem!

Michael

[Michael Escher]

I contacted AJA this morning and was instructed to use the “AJA Uninstaller” and reinstall the AJA driver. It solved the problem!

Michael

[Michael Escher]

I’ve been playing around with the easy setups and find that when I change the preset from the “AJA KONA LH – 720p 59.94 Apple ProRes 442” and then back again that Final Cut Pro gives me a dialog box that reads “This computer does not have any serial ports matching those specified by the current device control preset. You will need to set the port.”

I don’t remember running into this issue in the past. Does anyone have any idea of what needs to be done to get this set up to work again?

Michael Escher

[Michael Escher]

I’ve been playing around with the easy setups and find that when I change the preset from the “AJA KONA LH – 720p 59.94 Apple ProRes 442” and then back again that Final Cut Pro gives me a dialog box that reads “This computer does not have any serial ports matching those specified by the current device control preset. You will need to set the port.”

I don’t remember running into this issue in the past. Does anyone have any idea of what needs to be done to get this set up to work again?

Michael Escher

[Michael Escher]

Hi Bob,

I’m shopping for smaller, more portable monitor (around 24″) for travel as well as a larger one for the editing room. Since this thread is over a year old, I was wondering if the suggestions for smaller and larger monitors has changed with the possible changes to new monitor technology and models. Is your recommendation for the Panasonic 42″ Plasma – TH42PH11UK still stand over other similarly priced monitors in the market place, and do you still like the 24″ JVC (model number???) over others?

Thanx,

Michael Escher

[Michael Escher]

I have to admit Automator looks slick, but I can’t figure out how to get in the guts of it and either modify an existing action or to record my own.

I feel like I am back on my old DOS machine again. ARGH!!

And I believe you are right Daniel, it appears from my experiments trying to do it via Compressor that it re compresses the file, at least it seemed like it from the time it took on each file. The re-compressed files don’t look bad, at least from what I can tell on playback, but I’d rather not take the chance on having that cause trouble down the line.

Anyhow, if anyone out there has a elegant solution to this, let me know.

Thanks ahead of time for any assistance!

Michael Escher

[Michael Escher]

I fooled around with Automator a couple of hours before I wrote this forum. I admit I was poking around in the dark and didn’t have a “how to” on the program but after a while I gave up and hoped that I could do it through compressor.

I’ll take a look at the link you sent and see if I can figure it out using Automator. Still would be nicer to do it in Compressor.

And thanks Daniel!

Michael Escher

[Michael Escher]

Tried that Rafael. Didn’t work.

Let’s see what the sheer video people say.

Thanks anyway,

Michael Escher
Los Angeles, CA, USA