Print toTape Prints Black

swarrine wrote on 8/1/2008, 8:58 AM
Hi-

Need to output to tape on V8. Everything seems normal pre-render the deck starts in record mode but no video/audio gets recorded. Deck captures fine, I tried PTT in manual mode, nothing. Just black.

We have many computers with Vegas 8 I have tried 3 of them with the same result. The decks are different too. We mostly output to DVD and have not noticed this problem before. We are on Vegas 8.0, it is a multi user CD.

Anyone else have this problem?

Suggestions?

TIA

Comments

Grazie wrote on 8/1/2008, 8:45 PM
Eh? - Don't understand?

"Need to output to tape on V8." - Understood

"Everything seems normal pre-render . . . " Understood

" . . the deck starts in record mode . . " Don't understand? Are you saying :

EITHER

A] The deck starts by itself? If so you aren't manual mode?

OR

B] If you are in manual mode then YOU started it. If so WHEN, at what point in the manual PTT cycle, did you start the Deck?

" . . but no video/audio gets recorded. " Understood

"Deck captures fine, . . " Don't understand? Do you mean it captures or rather SENDS to VEGAS fine - in which case VEGAS captures fine FROM the Deck, not that the Deck captures. See?

" . . . I tried PTT in manual mode, nothing." See above on what I don't understand. OK, are you implying that AUTO works? You haven't explicitly said? Does auto work?

I have setup my Deck and PC to test your query. But, personally, I do need you to explain a it more fully.

OK, on my earliest attempts if I place my deck on Record-PAUSE I am not able to take it out of PAUSE to record during the Manual countdown process - it locks! But, if I DON'T use PAUSE, and set the Deck to record at the 3 seconds countdown, then it works fine.

Grazie

farss wrote on 8/2/2008, 4:52 AM
Suggest you put a monitor on the output of the VCR. Then you can see if Vegas is sending it video or not when the VCR goes into record.
One possible trap, you're not sending NTSC DV to a deck that's in PAL are you or the other way around?
Also Vegas sends 30 seconds or so of black leader before vision to the VCR.

Bob.
Former user wrote on 8/2/2008, 5:55 AM
What type of decks are you trying to print to?

Dave T2
swarrine wrote on 8/5/2008, 7:13 AM
Hi Everyone-

Problem solved. Vegas 8 will not print to tape on a Mac that is boot camped to a PC. I am guessing there is an overlay issue.

We have 4 Macs that run FCP on the Mac side and Vegas 8 on the PC side. Until the PTT issue it all worked perfectly. None of the Macs will PTT.

We also have straight PC laptops (where I am now printing to tape using V8).

We are a public access TV station and have created thousands of mpeg-2 files which we do every day on our boot camped Macs.

BEFORE everyone jumps all over me for using Macs, the reason why we have them boot camped is because of scheduling issues. Now we don't need to worry who is a PC or a Mac user, all computers are exactly the same. Other than this PTT issue we have had no problems.

Maybe the Vegas techs want to take a crack at this. Hopefully, it is as simple as some driver that I do not have installed.

iMac with duo intel, 4 gigs ram, external drives.

Thanks for all the help.
farss wrote on 8/5/2008, 7:47 AM
Your problem is possibly caused by the Windoz firewire drivers or something in how Windoz treats firewire ports. I have a vague recollection of reading something somewhere about the firewire ports on Macs being just a tad different. It could have been guys running Linux or Windoz, not certain which. If it is a driver problem unfortunately it's unlikely to be something SCS could fix.
You could also try disabling networking over firewire and the firewire firewall. I think I once fixed a firewire problem by doing that.
Sorry I'm being a bit vague.
Bob.
swarrine wrote on 8/6/2008, 7:48 PM
I don't know if it is a Firewire problem. The Mac/V8 combo capture from the deck perfectly. Between the various computers we have captured thousands of hours of video either directly or daisy chaining thru an external drive whithout any problems whatsoever.

The only repeatable problem we have is we are unable to print to tape using any of our boot camped Macs.

Is there anyone else on this board using a Mac?
mtntvguy wrote on 1/15/2009, 2:48 PM
I see no one has come up with a solution for this. I have a new iMac and it does exactly the same thing... captures perfectly, renders great, but won't do external preview or print to tape. It's making me nuts.

FWIW, the same thing was happening on the Mac OS side, but FCP has a "refresh camera" option that fixed it there. I can't find anything in V8 or Windows that'll do that on the Windows side. I could live without the PTT ability (I just move the veg file and it's media over to my PC using an external drive), but not being able to output to an external monitor via firewire is a major grief-giver.

Has anyone come across a fix for this? Disabling the 1394 network connection didn't do anything.

Come on Sony... I'll bet you could sell some software to iMac users if you spent some time going on these kind of issues. Final Cut isn't as hot as Apple think it is.