[Catherine Yrisari] "I need to crash record the P2 sequences onto tape and can't do Print to Tape or ETT. How do I crash record if I can't print to tape from FCP? "
Yes you can Edit to Tape from FCP even with a 1200A. I did it for several years. What Bob and Shane are talking about is you cannot make a clean edit anywhere in your master because there is no flying erase head. So if you have an issue with your master, you need to start the recording all over again at the beginning of the tape.
The other big problem with the 1200A is there is a major frame offset from what you will set as your in point and this varies from 1200A to 1200A. It was 11 frames on our machine and it was consistent enough that we delivered 1 season of Good Eats in HD to the Food Network off our machine with no timecode issues.
So what you do is black the head of the tape with whatever timecode you need to start out with. Here it's always 00:58:00:00. You black about 20 seconds of the tape.
Now you want to start your Edit to Tape at 00:58:10:00. With the frame offset of the 1200A, I would set this to 00:58:10:11. The Edit to Tape would actually start at 00:58:10:00 on the deck and I'd be good to go.
You can only perform an Assemble Edit with this method, Insert Edit and sorts of edits within the master are completely out.
The 1200A is a very flaky machine when it comes to recording, but if you own one you can figure out what the frame offset it and it usually very consistent allowing you to make a very accurate master to tape.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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