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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:38:26 +0200, scribz <scribz@spymac-nospam.com>
wrote:
>On 2004-06-22 12:38:14 +0200, steveroberts@compuserve.com (Steve Roberts) said:
>
>> Yes, the DSR-11 does work OK with FCP - BUT you need to be running an
>> up to date version of FCP otherwise you can get audio/video sync
>> errors.
>
>Great. Running the last FCP 3.04. That ok or you need 4.5?
I'm not a Mac user, I'm only basing this on the recent experience of a
friend. I asked him and his reply was:-
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FCP3 has problems importing in sync via Firewire. The audio was
randomly 1-2 frames ahead (I think). This was on MacOS 9.2.2.
I have, however, discovered another problem with FCP4.5HD (under
OSX)...
I was trying to run some stuff out to DV from FCP4.5HD and, whatever I
did, the DSR-11 was not picking up the timecode. I connected the DSR
to the Powerbook (which still has FCP3 on it) and no problem -
timecode recorded fine. Back to FCP4: no timecode.
Saturday morning was spent on the phone to Apple support. They
suggested reinstalling FCP. To do this, you first have to uninstall
it, which means manually deleting a whole load of files on a list they
send you. Then you reinstall, do the software updates and so on. After
two hours of that, still no timecode. Back on to Apple support...
Eventually, they sent me this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93413
In other words, FCP 4 has disabled the sending of timecode via
Firewire while playing a project. They suggest you use the DV-CAM
deck's internal tc generator. Of course, the DSR-11 does not have an
internal TCG - or rather it has one, but it only records from
00:00:00:00. So you cannot have project timecode on a dub to a DSR-11.
They've actually removed the facility.
This strikes me as absurd, and Apple Support are escalating it to
their engineers. It largely removes one of the whole points of DV
video.
Why have they done this? I wonder if Sony were miffed that they were
losing out on sales of higher-spec DV machines because of this
facility, and lobbied for it to be disabled.
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>> The analogue output of the DSR-11 will mirror whatever is being fed to
>> it via the Firewire cable.
>
>
>This the s-Video output off the DSR 11?
>
>ie G4 -> Firewire -> Sony DSR -11 -> S-Video -> TV monitor ?
Correct.
That's basically how I run my setup at home, except it's a PC and the
Firewire conenction is a dedicated Canopus DV Storm2 card.
Steve
The Doctor Who Restoration Team Website
http://www.restoration-team.co.uk
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