[Paul Thurston]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your response. I actually need somebody inside Costa Rica who could locally copy Digital-S tapes to DVCAM tapes. There is a time factor here that makes it impossible for me to wait for tapes to copy in Miami.

Regards,
Paul Thurston

[Paul Thurston]

Hi Peter,

Where are you located? The reason I ask is because the Operation Manual for the BVW-65 can be purchased from Sony Europe.

https://www.sonybiz.net/odw/profvideo
Follow the link that says “support” on the left hand side.

At this website, you can download for free, the following manuals:

SERIES PROTOCOL OF REMOTE-1 (9PIN) CONNECTOR 2.11
BETACAM / BETACAM SP SERIES PROTOCOL OF REMOTE-1 (9PIN) CONNECTOR 1.1
BETACAM / BETACAM SP SERIES RE-ALIGNMENT MANUAL 1.1

Regards,
Paul

[Paul Thurston]

I think I know what the issue is. This has been discussed before and the short answer is that your raid or raid card, for some reason is having a problem keeping up with the media bandwidth required for proper playback.

The simple solution: If indeed this is your problem, and I think it is based on the symptoms you describe, is to replace the hard drives in your raid with drives that allow the bandwidth requirements.

If you have a raid composed of SATA drives:
It has been discovered that SATA drives that are over 50% full also tend to respond slower causing the symptoms you describe.

If you have a SCSI raid:
You may need to install more drives in your raid and only use 10K RPM drives. Slower SCSI drives (7,200 RPM) may work at times, but I don’t recommend them for this line of work.

If your drives are fine and provide the bandwidth needed for your media:
(this happened to me) you may have a slow raid card and will need to replace it so your bandwidth requirements are maintained.

Hope this helps,
Paul Thurston

[Paul Thurston]

1. Capture audio in analog form, and control the audio level using an analog audio mixer.

2. Capture in Digital AES/EBU form, and control the audio level using a digital audio mixer. This of course requires you to get the DB-25 to XLR 110 Ohm AES/EBU adapter.

The audio mixer tells you what sound level you have.

-Paul

[Paul Thurston]

The codecs I use come from Decklink (with an installed deck link pro card.) Have not used any other uncompressed codec.

-Paul

[Paul Thurston]

If your hard drive setup (raid) is fast enough, then you would normally be able to playback your media in realtime. This of course takes for granted that you have the media as AVI all the way. If you are not getting real time playback on Premier Pro:

1. The codec selected does not allow realtime playback (will need to use another codec.)

2. Your raid is not fast enough.

3. Combination of both 1 and 2.

The BlackMagic setup program will install in your computer a codec that allows, raid speed dependent, realtime HD playback of AVI files.

-Paul Thurston

[Paul Thurston]

The CCU appears to be locked out. This means that the buttons on the chassis of the CCU will not operate until somebody goes into the CCU menu and unlocks the keys and knobs. Only then you’ll be able to make changes to the CCU and notice the adjustments on the video outputs. This is usually done to avert accidental changes to the operating parameters once the CCU has been correctly adjusted.

Regards,
-Paul

[Paul Thurston]

Hi Jay,

I’m actually on the other side of the world, (Santiago, Chile.) But I am available for DP freelance work, if your camera operator doesn’t work out.

Regards,
Paul Thurston

[Paul Thurston]

In Western Japan, voltage is 100V 60Hz while Eastern Japan is 100v 50Hz.

https://www.equitech.com/support/worldpwr.html

I would send Lowel an e-mail and ask your questions directly to them.
https://www.lowel.com/contact.html

If that’s a bad idea, here is the Lowel Japanese distributor:

Honjo & Company
No.5,4-Chome Koyoucho-Higashi
Higashinada-ku Kobe 658-0031

Phone 81 78 8572151
Fax 81 78 8572171

Honjo & Company
1-7-9,Nishi-Azabu,Minato-Ku
Tokyo 106-0031

Phone 81 3 5411 8841
Fax 81 3 5411 8861

For a Tokyo HDCam rental facility (Sony HDCAM – HDW 750):
https://www.asiahiretokyo.com/

Or try a search at mandy.com
https://www.mandy.com/place/japa.cfm

Regards,
Paul Thurston

[Paul Thurston]

Hi Timothy,

Try http://www.mandy.com and contact HD videographers in Germany.

Mandy works well… and lists most of the important contact data that a producer would need.

Paul Thurston
paulthurston@yahoo.com