Rhewitt
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1. Create a new bin for import.
2. Select the MXF Format in the Media Creation Settings Media Type tab.
3. Open the bin in to which you want to store the imported files.
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Have you tried looking at the scientific calculators from HP, Casio and Texas Instruments. A while back I had a Casio calculator that did timecode calculations and conversions between different frame rates.
I know there are dedicated devices on the market for broadcast use but they’ll be expensive.
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What sound card are you using and what platform – PC/MAC. What spec machine and OS?
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Simon,
What’s the rest of the error message? It should give more information. Failing that can you have a look in the Console and see what’s reported there.
What video format, duration etc?
There are many things that could cause this: corrupt application data/files, Windows updates etc.
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Absolutely!!
High temperature is one of the biggest killers of electronic equipment. Most electronics is designed to operate at room temperature around 21/22C. Most is okay upto around 30C as long as there is a good airflow. Moving air over a any surface causes a drop in temperature and this is the reason devices are fitted with fans, it’s not just blowing the heat out.
If you rack mount equipment it is essential that a good flow of air is available.
One broadcast station I worked at was designed by someone who was incapable of calculating the heat generated by equipment and we ended up with the temperature in the back of the racks reaching 40C within 20-mins of the equipment being powered-up. Not surprisingly, the vision mixer failed an hour later followed by two power supplies to a router and 3 broadcast monitors. This person thought that just drawing air out of the top of the racks was enough to keep it cool. The racks generated 30KW of excess heat that resulted in a new airconditioning system being built at very short notice.
Equally of little surprise, the staff also started to suffer the effect of the heat and walked out!
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5. Try pressing play on the VTR and see if that appears within the capture tool window.
It does. In fact, if the deck is already rolling the capture tool window shows it’s playing and matches it’s timecode.
Getting closer!
1. Do you timecode breaks on your tape at around the time of failure?
2. Are you capturing to the correct drive in the capture tool?
3. Have a check of the following document on page 4 that refers to your deck and check settings. Device Compatability. -
Darn! It’s Winter here in Australia – looks like I have a long wait 😉
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[-Matthew]”Exception: Audio/Video is unexpectedly no longer coming into the system”.
The message means exactly as it says – there is no video/audio on the firewire input.
The 1200A 60 deck is directly supported in MC 2.7.
1. Double check the settings on the deck are correct – can you monitor video from the deck itself via a monitor?
2. Is the deck set for playback via firewire/iLink?
3. Try setting deck preferences in Media Composer to Generic DV Device
4. Do you have any other firewire device connected to the same card? Storage etc?
5. Try pressing play on the VTR and see if that appears within the capture tool window.
6. Do you have the capture tool set for VTR control? If so try the global setting and press play from the deck when have started a manual record.
7. In the capture tool, do you have HOST – 1394 set for both video and audio?
Let us know and we should be able to help further.
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The format to use is DV25 PAL 25i.
This is a standard DV25 interlaced format.
The DRS-PD170 only allows: 25i PAL or 30i NTSC depending on version. The camera also has a 25/15FPS (depending on PAL or NTSC version)progessive mode but this is designed for capturing still/time-lapsed images rather than video footage.
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[bane76]Wrote: “I’m thinking about buying a new HD with firewire and I just wanted to know how much an hour weight in GB when I digitize it on offline 1:15 and how much it weight when I’m digitizing in 420”
New HD? Are you referring to a HD camera or deck?
What format HD? True HD?, HDV?If you’re referring to HDV then HDV is just an aquisition format, when importing into your editing application you should transcode to a DNxHD format depending on your editing application. HDV ‘native’ editing is a hugely processor intensive task and will bring most editing systems to its knees.
As for the storage requirements, again this depends on what format your captured data will be in. HDV is pretty much the same data rate as DV25, which will require approx 13GB per hour.