Sony miniDV deck and Final Cut Pro 6
by sikkdays
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Oct 11, 2007 at 1:23:15 am
I work at a university and they purchased quite a few Sony GV-D1000 decks for labs last year. With the recent install of Final Cut 6 the "Print to Video" function has had intermittent problems. I have yet to see the problem myself, but apparently the miniDV tapes occasionally have gray blocks on them when students print to tape. We can't get the problem to happen all the time, like I said it was intermittent.
One of my friends did a great deal of research on the problem and the "gray blocks" are the exact symptom that is described when a deck is communicating as PAL and FCP is communicating as NTSC. (Sorry if this sounds a bit confusing, I am trying to remember the info that I received third person.) He called Apple and they said that they could not help him because they do not support that particular deck, and they gave him a web address of supported decks.
Thus, not supporting the deck is probably a hint that I shouldn't pursue a solution, however, I was wondering if anyone else is using FCP 6 and this deck. It seems to happen on the Intel Macs, but the G5's in edit suites are not having this problem.
Any ideas?
Re: Sony miniDV deck and Final Cut Pro 6 by Dave LaRonde on Oct 11, 2007 at 6:47:53 pm
[sikkdays]"One of my friends did a great deal of research on the problem and the "gray blocks" are the exact symptom that is described when a deck is communicating as PAL and FCP is communicating as NTSC. "
So then you double-checked the decks to make sure that a setting hadn't been changed somewhere from NTSC to PAL, right?
Re: Sony miniDV deck and Final Cut Pro 6 by sikkdays on Oct 11, 2007 at 9:21:45 pm
Yes, we have been through the menu settings and the manual for the GV-D1000. Basically, it appears that the Final Cut 6 is not communicating with this particular deck correctly. Currently, we have been testing a Sony TRV-25 camcorder to print to tape to see if we have the same problem. Maybe the communication problem with the deck and FCP 6 is related to another software installed on the lab computers. If the camera has the same problems then maybe the decks aren't a lost cause.
