Mike Simpson
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I’m currently testing the KA MR100G for our GY HD251 cameras so was wondering exactly the same thing having seen the adapters for those using EX3s and the like.
I contacted MxM regarding their adapters and got this response:Unfortunately, this recorder has only PCI-e interface, not USB 2.0 therefore will not accept any adapters like MxM which are USB 2.0 interface.
This is an unfortunate situation for you, but that is the way JVC decided to use Sony’s SxS technology.You can’t use our MxMs with a JVC…
The reason you have to use Sony SxS is that your recorder will only accept SxS because it is based and preinstalled with Sony’s priority driver.There are PCI-e express34 adapters but none of them will work on your JVC as they will not recognize as a SxS without this abovementioned driver from Sony.
SO. It would seem the answer to your question, and mine, would be no.
Mike
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Thanks for your input…and i agree that anything would be better than composite and hopefully we will be doing something about that shortly. We installed HD SDI cabling in readiness for upgrading but i can’t see us being able to afford such a huge step any time soon…that would mean upgrading everything – monitoring, routing switchers, decks, mixers etc etc.
My initial enquiry was regarding mixing our SD DVCPRO recorded material with our SD DV recorded material and whether we should be capturing all the footage in any format other than DV due to the sampling of these formats, all PAL.
Any comments on this are more than welcome as i love learning and have found the cow a great place to do just that…and it’s a great place to help others out with their problems.
Looking forward to hearing more,
Mike
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Thanks for the input.
I was aware of most of your points and sadly we currently cannot do anything regarding recording via composite! This frustrates me a lot as i know going SDI would be far superior…and component would be at least a step up. Sadly the cameras we use do not currently have the option of component out but there is an SDI board available. We are hopefully about to test one out now that JVC have one for us to try.
Apparently when the decks were first bought they came with SDI boards but were not installed and cannot be found now!!! How annoying is that.We are looking into tapeless workflows – would be lovely not to have to log and capture all our footage.
Anyway…are you saying that if we capture all our footage into FCP using the DVCPRO50 codec that we would see the benefits? I’ll give it a quick go next time a suite is free if the answer is yes.
Thanks again so far.
Mike
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Hi Amit,
I don’t believe it is possible to play back1080i footage on the BR HD50.
I’m not currently by our deck but i do believe it is possible to play back 720P footage, as in that you may record with a JVC GY HD200 series camera, and output it at 1080i but you cannot playback material originating in 1080i.
That is my understanding of what the deck is capable of…but i’m happy to be rectified.
As an aside…if you have a Z1 or whatever just use that. If you are working in SD you can down convert the footage to SD over firewire if necessary.
Mike
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Thanks for your input.
I stupidly hadn’t even thought about the drop shadow in the motion tab.
(Note to self…sometimes it’s real easy…just think a bit.)Guess i’ll give that a go and looking forward to the results.
Mike
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I work for a firm that currently has 2 x GY HD251s and 2 x GY HD200 cameras and 1 x BRHD50, all E models, what with being in the uk and all.
After an initial problem with capturing media, which ended up being due to a duff RS422 cable, the only problems we have encountered have been dropped frames…but i mean lots and lots of dropped frames.
When we first encountered the problem JVC were really quote helpful. We took our cameras into them and they checked them out, although we had other issues with a dodgy graphic overlay thing with both of the 251s which was repaired in one of the cameras.
Anyway, JVC aid that if we used their media they would be able to trace the batches of tapes if we encountered problems again. To be fair we haven’t been in touch with them for a while as the dropped frames didn’t seem too frequent but now it’s just beyond a joke and we are in contact with JVC again and hope to rectify the problem.
It doesn’t seem to matter whether we are shooting in SD or HD, although it appears much worse with HD due to the GOP structure…we loose at least 1/2 second per dropped frame with HD.I’ll keep everyone posted on how this progresses but if anyone else has had similar problems and managed to resolve them i’d love to hear.
BTW, we still run FCP 5.1.4 and don’t have issues with connecting to the BR50. We’ve not tried connecting to the cameras as i don’t like using them as decks!
mike
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try this is you haven’t got that pdf yet…
let the camera warm up for an hour or so (apparently this is best.)
put the camera in 24p mode
hold down the status and focus assist buttons for 6 seconds.
select camera 1
now select picture comp.
hope it helps.
mike
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Thanks you for the tip.
I think we are going to end up shooting on our Z1 booted in NTSC mode and SD.
The client doesn’t need HDV apparently!
It would make sense for me to have a look at the lighting setup before i mess this up. I’m thinking of using our DEDOs and kino.
Any other tips for me are most welcome.mike
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Brilliant. Thank you for your swift response Justin.
I will make sure that our client is aware of the JVC issues involved.
mike
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check this out for the 720P50 workflow in FCP:
https://www.aulich-adamski.de/en/perm/720p50-capturing-editing-in-final-cut-pro
If that helps maybe you can help me out.
I have a JVC BR-HD50 that i can’t get RS422 control over seemingly no matter what i tell FCP it is controlling. I haven’t used it in Firewire mode yet because i don’t want to do that!I know the deck works as i have tried it with other edit suites and the Kona we have here works with all other decks.
Any thoughts?