[Trevor Kinsey]

Just did a little more checking and I find that if I quit Fibrejet and then insert the XD cam disk it will mount and I can then restart Fibrejet and mount the raid volumes. A bit cumbersome and it means I can’t do much else while I am copying disks, but better than rebooting.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

Hi Rick,
just found your posting re Fibrejet and the PDW-U1. I am having a similar problem and wodered if you had a work around?

I have used one these drives in the past without problems and have been surprised when I encountered it this time. I find the disk will mount if I reboot with the drive connected, powered on and the disk inserted, but when I change disks it will once again fail to mount meaning another reboot. Tedious to say the least. I suppose I could copy everything to a firewire drive and then copy it to the raid, but I think that would be slower than rebooting for each disk.

Cheers,

Trevor

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

Our Prime Minister certainly seems to think that our interest lie close to George Bush, and the country is probably closer to the US too, but we come from good English convict stock.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

Actually Australia is PAL. A rule of thumb, those countries heavily influenced by European countries (including England) in the previous century use 50Hz mains and PAL or SECAM, those influenced by the USA use 60Hz mains and NTSC.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

We have two dual G5 MACs running Final Cut Pro 5.0.4 with Decklink Extreme cards and have no trouble with insert and assemble editing, always frame accurate on our PVW2800P deck. We use an external sync generator.

We had a Cinewave card prior to getting our first Decklink and gave up on it after a few more months and bought the second Decklink. The Decklink does everything we expect of it. The only issue we have is that because the card pegs everything to broadcast safe levels there is sometimes a video level change (brightness) when we insert into a pre recorded tape from a less reliable source.

There are no problems when inserting into material already recorded from an edit suite.

Trevor

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

It might depend on other aspects of the system, for example storage speed. The Decklink card can certainly do the monitoring, but the rest of the system may not be up to the task.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

You can probably loop the Y signal at the deck end. Most SP decks have loop through inputs. Just make sure you only terminate it at the end.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

For anybody else out there still looking for a solution; we have one system using a Flying Cow, but on the other we simply split the XLR outputs with Y cables. Of course you need a monitoring system that handles balanced audio, in our case an input on the mixer that controls the input, with its output set to only go to an auxilliary output which feeds some powered monitor speakers.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

You can usually loop the Y or composite input signal through the ref video connector to sync the SP deck to the incoming signal. This will stop the rolling bars and give you some peace of mind. Sometimes the deck will object to this if the incoming signal is of low quality, eg. off a VHS, but it will usually work with a high quality signal.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia

[Trevor Kinsey]

Many Pro DVCam decks do show a tick mark at reference level. However, they can usually be programmed for the reference level you want. In Australia the reference is usually set to -12 dBFS. Digi Beta is usually set to -18 dBFS or -20.

We had so many problems with audio levels on TVCs which we distributed on DVCam a few years ago that we went back to distributing them on Beta SP.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia