[Tad Newberry]

uh…i hate to admit this, but it looks like when i had reset my FCP prefs, it went to a PAL preset instead of an NTSC one. (“it” meaning “me” somewhere along the lines…). changed the preset, no more “Error” in the window.

(maybe the COW should start another forum called “bonehead mistakes and how to avoid them in the future.” i could be the moderator!)

thanks for helping out a bonehead!

[Tad Newberry]

uh…i hate to admit this, but it looks like when i had reset my FCP prefs, it went to a PAL preset instead of an NTSC one. (“it” meaning “me” somewhere along the lines…)

anyway, now my only problem is that i don’t get any video feed to my video monitor from the FCP timeline. i’ve tried all the output settings that i know about, but still nothing. i know i’m capturing because i have video in my Canvas and Viewer windows, and during capture, my 1800 plays the video to the monitor as well…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!

[Tad Newberry]

JB,

i’m getting the same error today! i’ve had the loop-through workaround working fine since i got my Mac system almost a year ago, then yesterday all i got on the 1800 window upon FCP startup was “Error93-000.”!!!!

i’m stuck, got a deadline (of course, this is always when technical problems occur!). i’ve played around with my cables, and it is only when i plug the “Y Out (to deck)” cable back into the ref in (upper left) that i get the error message again. not sure why it started to yell at me this way after months of faithful service. i thought maybe my loop-through BNC cable had gone bad. tried another, and the same problem…so maybe my decklink cable is bad? i dunno…

i understand about the blackburst generator solution, but like you are doing, my slightly cheaper option was working fine. any ideas on how to fix this without ordering a bb generator before next week??

thanks for helping out a bonehead!

[Tad Newberry]

i know it probably sounds unorthodox (maybe impossible??), but i thought this was how i had set it up last time for VHS capture. i have no blackburst generator, so my dealer said to set it up thusly in normal situations:

component cables from Mac/Decklink Card to compone. Y component cable to ref in (on UVW-1800), the left one, and on the Y input to the 1800, loop another BNC from that Y input to the other ref in (the right one). then, put the “genlock in” cable from the Decklink to the Video in (left side). with this config, i capture Beta footage with no problems. with this VHS stuff, i’ve tried the composite cable from the camcorder on both ref in’s (and only the left one gives me anything, which is virtually no chroma), and i get no picture at all on the . . .

oh…wait a minute. it helps to write this stuff out sometimes…i see that i never left my front input selector (on the 1800) on “Composite”. ding dong…and yes, putting the video from the camcorder on an actual video input on the 1800 helped a lot, too.

voila. me have color. sorry for wasting the bandwidth again. i have written down these connections and am storing them in a very safe place…

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn

[Tad Newberry]

it looks like “The Ripper” was the magic bullet! works great. thanks a ton and a half!

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn

[Tad Newberry]

thanks. i downloaded them both and it seems that DVDxDV only wants to work with “iDVD-created” DVD’s. i just get a few blocky-green-jumbled frames from my Hollywood movie. It works good on the corporate DVD’s that i’ve produced though.

MPEG Streamclip seems to to work then, says “File open error: the first part of the file is not valid”. Am i skewered?

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn

[Tad Newberry]

cool. i downloaded a few, and might be able to use them here and there.

any experience with Artbeats or Jumpbacks, Rocket Clips or others? just curious. it looks like Jumpbacks has one of the best “deals” (as far as volume is concerned anyway).

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn

[Tad Newberry]

thanks for the info guys…

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn

[Tad Newberry]

the 1-pass 6.2mbps worked, as did the 2-pass 5.0mbps…but i can’t decide which one looks better! either way, the 2-pass 6.2 again failed – no video! very strange…

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn

[Tad Newberry]

thanks. it worked like a dream!

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn