[Philip Richardson]

Some time has passed… but may i just say thank you!

A very blessed post that saved my hair. Why do they make it secret?

P

Phil, Pogo Films Ltd ….UK
Quantel IQ 2K. FCP HD, SD
5 suites, 2 workstations, cables, chairs and headaches.

[Philip Richardson]

Hello Walter

Many thanks for replying to my post.

My question is really based on the Hardware requirements and if anyone else out there is going down this route. We have obviously seen nuke but our compositor is working in Afetr Effects and happy with it, so i don’t feel we shall shift to Nuke, mid-job.

I have a feeling i may just have to do this anyway and if i have success, i shall update!

Thanks
P

Phil, Pogo Films Ltd ….UK
Quantel IQ 2K. FCP HD, SD
5 suites, 2 workstations, cables, chairs and headaches.

[Philip Richardson]

Hello

Phil here, i work with Joe at Pogo and it was myself that spoke to Arri and Sony man!

The deck seems to be heavily dependent upon it’s software version, which if you don’t mind me saying, is Sony protecting it’s interests.
ANyhow, version 1.1 would allow deck controlled recording in an edit environment, however, it did not support any of the “Pal Orientated” HD frame rates.

Version 2.2 does support those frame rates but does not support Edit Record functions through RS-422. Certainly not for 25PsF and maybe for other rates too.

If it wasn’t for issues of privacy I would give this guys number for you to phone but i have to take it as gospel as much as i can. I lost three days in research, phone calls and experimenting trying to get this to work and it did not. It was clearly an RS422 issue and what the Sony man said makes sense to me.

Why manufacture a field deck that performs perfectly well in an edit suite when you produce a similar model for the studio? I think it’s an issue of economics and probably somewhere in marketing someone said “By heck, disable that immediately!”

Thank you for all of the help, everyone.

Philip Richardson
MD Pogo Films Ltd.