Robert Brown
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This problem has exsisted with FCP 4.5, not sure which BM drivers but all of the recent ones until FCP 5.0 came out, and now I still get it with FCP 5.02 and QT 7.01 – although I’ll have to double check the QT vers. – and OS X 10.4.2. The deck is set to auto sync which goes to input on record, and the Black video output to deck in capture is on the SDI out but I’ve tried most of these settings both ways. There is no trisync involved I’m sending the deck SD Bl Burst since this is a 59.94 deck although I’ve disconnected the sync and it made no difference. I forgot to try to output using Deck Control but I doubt this will work. The thing is Sony decks or at least an SRW-1 and 5500 read it fine. I will also try another deck and make sure both are having the same problem. But this problem has existed since I got this card, and at one point I did try a replacement and it was no better. And as I mentioned before this was with FCP 4.5 – 5.02 and everything in between, and various BM drivers and various versions of Quicktime and it has NEVER worked right except with Sony decks. I will make sure though I try exactly everything you mention though.
Robert
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I’m sorry if I was a bit angry and thanks to the people who sent info on how to make this work but everything I tried should have worked. And like Dan said they are marketing this to professionals as a professional product. I couldn’t believe the amount of different errors I got. An edl with totally wrong source timecodes? You got to be kidding me. It seems FCP has some weird issue with how it timecodes the frames. I’ve seen this when match framing, it will go to a totally wrong part of the clip occasionally. The way it deals with slo-mos is also hard to understand and it cannot keep proper track of timecodes in slo-mos. Call me old fashioned for still using edls but they are simple and they work. And they still are an accepted method of data exchange and should be dead on accurate – and it is hard to understand why that would be a problem.
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Yes this was a 60P timeline. I tried the 60@30 setting but it made no difference. I could tell in the EDL that the record times were bases on 60 fps as the frames went above 30 but all of the record numbers were correct. The source numbers were hours off. I didn’t look at it enough to tell if there was some pattern or not.
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Yes this is 5.02 and yes this is via HD-SDI. And yes if you import the clips back in all is well.
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Sorry for one thing. I figured out what I was doing wrong in the capture window although it doesn’t make much sense to me that that selector would be greyed out for BM but active for other codecs. The audio into the DVC Pro HD still doesn’t work though and I have mentioned this a couple of times before with no real response. It works fine for Sony decks but not Panasonic.
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Why would there be a setting for the number of channels your hardware can process? And why would the other codecs not have it greyed out? And also why would you be able to adjust this in the clip settings menu prior to capture?
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What do you mean capturing DV Cam through the decklink? Can’t you capture firewire? Or are you taking composite video from the deck?