PrintToTape with SONY DSR-11 Deck

snicholshms wrote on 12/23/2002, 4:35 PM

Anyone out there using the SONY DSR-11 deck with Vegas? I can't get Vegas to print to tape from the "Tools" section in Vegas with this unit. Vegas Support has not tested this particular deck.

I even lowered the settings to 1 second for SMPTEBars & 1 second for black leader and trailer and get...nothing but blackness! The progress bar at the lower side of the screen shows percentage progress increasing but that goes on for many more minutes than is reasonable.

Vegas and Windows XPPro recognize the SONY DSR-11 device. My PC consists of XPPro w(SP-1); AMD dual 2000+ Palominos on an ASUS A7M266-D motherboard; Creative Audigy Platinum 2 Card (I unplugged the internal firewire connector on the Audigy board); SIIG firewire card is connected to the SONY DSR-11; USB 2.0 card (Use a Belkin USB adapter for web access). I removed the modem, network card and unplug the USB2.0 Belkin adapter.

I can capture DV from the SONY DSR-11 just fine.

Hardware Device Manager shows SBP2CompliantIEEE 1394 device on VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Cont
Driver:sbp2port.sys
Driver date 7/1/2001
Driver version 5.1.2600.0

I can print to tape from the media pool. The problem with that is I would have to render each project twice: once with a leader for VHS and once without a leader for DVD.

Any suggestions?

Steve

Comments

swarrine wrote on 12/23/2002, 5:44 PM

Hi-

I thought it was wierd that I could control the deck but it would not automatically control from PTT. I just did the manual start in PTT and all was fine.

snicholshms wrote on 12/25/2002, 9:01 PM

Here's the ANSWER:
Unplug the Belkin network adapter!
Steve

Cheesehole wrote on 12/26/2002, 9:18 AM

I have some problems using this deck with Vegas:
- Automatic PTT from Timeline doesn't work
- Sometimes I get much longer leaders than I want (I type 1 sec but get 30 seconds to 2 minutes)
- sometimes clips capture with a setting of 32K even though they are 48K

I don't think all those issues are directly related to the DSR-11, but that's the only deck I use so I don't know. other than that it works great.

A work-around for the leaders problem: you should render your own leaders and then use the print to tape tool (Vegas Capture) to print to tape. you can cue up more than one clip and have them print as a batch. that way you can use the same leaders for all your projects.

snicholshms wrote on 12/26/2002, 2:22 PM

Cheesehole:

Thanks for the "work around" info!

Steve

TomG wrote on 12/26/2002, 9:30 PM

What's a DSR-11? Is this a professional deck. I tried to find it at Sony on-line and they don't list anything that begins with a "DSR".

snicholshms wrote on 12/26/2002, 10:37 PM

Hi Tom:

Checkout this site for info on the DSR11: http://bssc.sel.sony.com/Professional/webapp/ModelInfo?m=0&sm=0&p=16&sp=113&id=58442
This device allows us to NOT have to use our cameras so much. A worth while investment.

Steve