export to tape problem

[RonnieMartin]

I have exported for years now to DVD and have not had a request for a HDV tape since way back before 4.x. My problem is that I cannot get the deck to see the NX card except on capture. My clips were shot in 1920x1080. I changed the settings to 1440X1080. I have two Sony HDV decks. Capture will work with both and I can control the play and rewind functions. However, when I play the time line neither of the decks will record. When I click on print to tape I get "error has occured during tape out" I am sure that it is just a setting somewhere but for the life of me I can't find it.

Sorry for the dumb question.

Thanks
Ronnie Martin

[Khoi Pham]

You must first render your timeline to HDV, export/hdv preset, then when it finished, click on Capture/MPEGTS writer and that is where you can export to tape.

[DigitalDave]

If you are using Vers 5 you will need to check enable conversion to even see the HDV presets.

[RonnieMartin]

With earlier versions all I had to do was hit the space bar and play the time line while starting the record dv deck and it recorded what was played.

With 4.61 I have never had a request for a project on HDV tape.

I tried what you said without results. I would think that fire wire being an in/out connection that wheb I can control the deck and capture from the deck that simply playing the timeline would result in out put to the deck if I manually put the deck in the record mode.

I guess the question should be is the fire wire on the NX card active when the timeline is being played?

Thanks
Ronnie

Ronnie

[DigitalDave]

Dont think you could ever OP HDV to tape from the TL only DV.
Yes it CAPTURES but does not playback unless you playout from TS writer ( I have a feeling that TS writer, Must be connected to an OHCI firewire NOT NX firewire- sorry cannot check at moment as I'm using the HDV deck for something else. Did 3.6 even export to HDV?

[Khoi Pham]

What on your timeline right now is not HDV, and so your HDV deck can not understand the signal being sent, you must first render your timeline to HDV format by using export/HDV presets or older version use Speed Encoder.
When you are using the TS writer, it uses the HDV file to print to tape, not the timeline, so you can not just hit the space bar on the timeline to export to tape, only way is to use TS writer.

[RonnieMartin]

Thanks guys for your help... I got it to work thanks to your advice. In all the time I have been editing HDV I have never written back to tape only encoded to DVD for distribution. This time the TV station that wanted the clips had upgraded at lest to HDV for acquisition. In the past they always wanted DV or DVCAM. Thanks again for your help

Ronnie Martin

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[tingsern]

Actually, is it necessary to render the timeline to HDV? I thought if the project setting says HDV at 1280 x 720 or 1920 x 1080, the output should go out as HDV signals? I can tell what signals is being sent out to component - because my monitor can display it. But, to Firewire, that's kinda of tricky.

[Ron Evans]

I think all the NLE's create a rendered file of some sort, even Vegas that has smart render still creates an output file in its temp folder to export to tape. I think that what is on the timeline is separate audio and video which has to be remuxed or confirmed no change for smart render, before it will output to tape. Some may do this on the fly so seem realtime?

Ron Evans

[tingsern]

I did a test using my Sony HDV deck ... yes, I have to render to HDV before I can output to tape drive.