Re: Video Ref issue? Help before I jump off a bridge!

[b]This is a great suggestion. I will try this next. When you say the tape needs to be striped to the new reference video source, do you mean I have to black and code the beginning of the tape while the HDCam SDI out is connected to the dbeta VIDEO REF in?[/b]
Yep.

2- The error logger can be accessed via:
Hitting the "entry" and "menu" buttons at the same time.

It doesn't report everything but some errors will get reported into the error logger.

[b]
So now I am thinking this is a playback issue and not a recording issue. The only way to confirm this is to play the tape on another dbeta deck.[/b]
I don't suppose your HDCAM deck has the digital betacam playback option.