R. Hewitt
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Just found some details from Sony. The BKM-101C board is compatible with all PVM ‘M’ Series monitors. Most other models including the latest ‘L’ series require the BKM-120D card.
Is there any more details on the serial number label that may help to identify your monitor as it isn’t showing up on any of the Sony support sites.
The following Link may help to point towards a solution.
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As far as I’m aware there is a 2GB limit on Avid systems. The solution is normally to break the files down into smaller sections but that makes the export option a touch tricky.
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Michael, I’ve tried serching for the manual on this one but to no avail. I suspect it may not be compatible as the BKM-101C board is for Sony Broadcast monitors where as the PVM-1345Q is a professional model and I believe there is a difference in the backplanes used.. I’ll keep searching and post back if I find anything.
Richard.
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Mixing formats is never a good idea.
The compression rate on DV is higher than BetaCam but DV wins on the virtual elimination of visible dropout – something that plagued the format.
DV25 at 4:1:1 is not the best way to start if you want to do good quality chroma keying. However, take a look at Serious Magic’s Ultra product and you may be persuaded otherwise.
I’d still go for another camera to match what you already have and start investigating the full costs of going digital later.
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I doubt if this would be a solution for anything other than storing your media and projects.
Although a simple single DV stream requires 25Mbits, a realtime dissolve between two clips will up that rate to 50Mbits during the transition and that’s just for a simple effect on one machine.
You would need a 1000-baseT network, with a maximum of one switch to distribute the video without network interruption. The NAS would also have to supply un-interrupted streams for realtime use and I very much doubt if it would be up to the task, bearing in mind the drives in NAS boxes aren’t that fast and they aren’t designed for video use.
Anything more than DV25 is out of the running. There’s a reason why Avid Unity and LANShare servers cost so much.
The Avid solution would do what you want in realtime with many formats fully supported including graphics files etc.
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Bob – Could that be ‘Break Out Box’? if you have one it would point to the PC being unable to communicate with it.
Similar problems happen with external SCSI drives.
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Hi Grin,
It’s safe to clear your error log messages. If you can backup your media and database it would be worth while re-formatting the drive(s). There are a whole host of possible causes including media errors on the drive platter that increase with age. A full format (rather than Quick Format) will look for surface media errors and map around them guaranteeing data integrity across the drive. If you then restore your media and database (worth a rebuild straight after restoring) and the problems continue you can start to rule out the drives as being the problem and start looking for other causes.
If you can, give this a try and let us know how you get on.
Richard.
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Looks like a either a DVD drive fault OR DVD media failure. At that duration your DVD laser is working towards the outside of the disc where variation in vibration or wobble of the disc is likely to have the greatest impact.
Try a different brand of DVD media first before investigating the drive itself.
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I believe this is a known fault that also affects the DSR-570s in many cases. It is caused by a faulty integrated circuit in the red channel processing. You’ll need to contact Sony Service to get it checked.
I’m hoping they have the parts because we have just been informed by Sony that the supplier of the faulty chip, in the case of the 570, no longer makes them despite Sony guaranteeing support until 2008. I’m sure they will come-up with a solution.