William Bearden
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Problem solved. Idiot move on my part. I did not realize that the menu bar was active on my right hand monitor.
Willy
Life is short…but it’s wide.
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First of all, thanks to all of you who weighed in on this issue. Your thoughts and help were invaluable. It turns out that running the tape back and forth a few times to lessen the tension actually worked. We were able to get the tape to dub successfully onto a DVCAM deck (with the correct tape stock of course).
The lesson I’ve taken away is to always question what doesn’t look right. I’ve been doing this kind of work for 25 years and when I walked into the venue that day I noticed the Panasonic recorders and thought it strange, but didn’t mention it to the TD, with whom I’ve worked for years. I rent from the same company and had never seen anything but Sony decks on probably 40 shows I’ve done with them. After the fact, some of the guys at the company didn’t even know they owned the Panasonic decks. The problem arose from a new person who keyed in the gear list. It was pulled from the warehouse in Nashville, loaded onto a truck and taken to my show in Memphis. No one questioned what should have been, if not obvious, then certainly curious. I know mistakes happen, but this ordeal has made me resolve to pay more attention to those “little shows” and “no brainer” setups. In this business we are defined by our last performance.
Willy Bearden/Memphis
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Mark,
Thanks so much for your help. We’re trying your suggestions this afternoon. I had to go out of town but have one of the smartest guys I know on the case. Let me know if we can ever be of help. If you come to Memphis, I’ll take you to Elvis’ house.Willy
Life is short…but it’s wide.
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It’s a 2 bay Firewire box that has removable drawers that lock into place. It has two Firewire connections in the back. I have used this box for the past couple of months. Everything was cool till I moved it.
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Wow…I’m getting some strange digital breakup on the monitor now.
Got the external drive back online but when I tried to reconnect the offline files the beach ball keeps spinning. -
Thanks. I did that but it didn’t help.
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I’m going directly out of the Firewire bus to the removable box. I’m monitoring through a DSR 30 deck on the other bus. I am stumped.