Wayne Vollweiler
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This might sound funny, but did you try hooking up the analog component outputs and analog audio outputs to the Adrenaline? Something tells me the firewire between formats doesn’t work. Simplest solution.
Wayne V. -
no, your problem is that avid doesn’t exist on your computer any more if you reinstalled your OS.
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I updated the video card driver – after almost an hour of updating, rebooting, fine tuning, re-fine tuning, rebooting, turning off processes, rebooting, and on and on… the render speed seems to be back to normal. The one issue I now have is a slight lag in timeline playback from when I hit play.
Fortunately for me, though, my IS guys set up simple file sharing on a few of the computers in my office – including the Adrenaline. They created a new user in place of Administrator, so every setting in every piece of software needed to be rebuilt. I had such a great time trying to get work done. Can’t wait for the fun to continue in the morning.
Thanks for the help.
Wayne
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Both gentlemen – Thanks for the insight. I’ll look into the video card driver – that should help. Unfortunately, when I asked my $ people to budget for a new computer for me going into 2005 – they didn’t. I’m stuck with this machine and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get a new one in 06.
Wayne V. -
So one firewire 400 drive and one dv camera/deck will work? That’s great. Thanks.
Wayne -
I had a sneaky suspicion that the 2 FW ports shared the same bus – that makes it almost useless for this application. I’ll look into the PCMCIA card. Thanks for the feedback.
Wayne -
I’ll try it, but this is a tape I’ve used on other systems, so I know the audio isn’t out of phase.
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If you’re working in SDI, then the Avid will be looking for it’s sync from the SDI source. In this case, your tape deck. Leave the deck on and most (if not all) of your problems will go away. If you don’t want to leave the deck on, then you have to get an SDI sync generator and sync all of your gear to it. Easier to just leave the deck on.
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Some people say firewire is better from DV tape because you’re keeping an all digital signal path. The bad part of that is a) no proc amp controls on input and b) color space is 4:1:1 (4:2:0 in PAL). This comes into consideration if you are doing a lot of compositing. The s-video line (even though its being converted from digital to analog a) gives you proc amp control on input and b) is upconverted to 4:2:2 color space. This is a little misleading because there still isn’t “enough” color to do real high end compositing, but you might see a little difference if you pull a chromakey from the s-video signal. Hope that helps.
Wayne -
Answer to question one… no, no, no. No TBC controls on a firewire signal. What’s on the tape is what you get in the computer. you’d have to color correct as you edit (add render time to your session).