To the best of my knowledge Convergent aren't yet shipping.
Following on from a meeting with Miranda at IBC yesterday it would appear
that, as Pat originally posted, the ball is in Avid's court to get the
machine control working accurately. The technicalities of the situation
are such that I can't see what else Miranda can do to make it work.
Perhaps Convergent have a clever secret approach, but I doubt it.
Unfortunately I didn't get to see Convergent at IBC because they weren't
listed in the Manufacturers' directory and I left the details of whose
stand they were sharing at work :-/
So where we're at currently is:
Miranda's box is working and has been shipping for two weeks, although
it doesn't work accurately with DS
Convergent's box isn't yet shipping and I have my doubts as to its
ability to work accurately with DS. In fairness, I must point out that
I base that opinion on a knowledge of the difficulties, not any
experience with Convergent Design (because they don't wish me to beta
test for them).
Regards,
Tone :)
> Anyone had experience using the Convergent with DS and Avid Composer????
>
>
>
> On 9/9/05, Paul Ingvarsson <paulingvarsson(at)mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is the convergent designs bridge not a solution either??
>>
>>
>> On Friday, September 09, 2005, at 10:39AM, editorphil <
>> editorphil(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> ><<Original Attached>>
>>
>>
>> FIX THIS ADS/AVID PLEASE ! This is/was my HDV solution for us . . . .
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/8/05, John Heiser <johnh(at)o2ideas.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Well, it just might be the DS capture engine, or even something else.
>> > I've had issues with time code breaks on mini-DV tapes playing out of
>> > our Panasonic AJ-SD930. The DS time code position display just keeps
>> > chugging merrily along across the break without displaying the new
>> time
>> > code, which does eventually appear correctly once the deck is stopped.
>> > The trouble there, of course, is you can't play across a break (which
>> > you can't see) and mark in on the fly; you have to stop the deck after
>> > every camera stop to make sure DS is seeing the correct code.
>> >
>> > This could be an RS-422 protocol thing, or a DS thing, or a Panasonic
>> > thing, or (in your case) a Miranda thing.
>> >
>> > Or sunspots.
>> >
>> > ____________________________
>> > John Heiser
>> > Avid DS Editor
>> > o2ideas
>> > Birmingham, Alabama, USA
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On
>> Behalf
>> > Of pat-list(at)horridge.demon.co.uk
>> > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 4:21 AM
>> > To: ds(at)Softimage.COM
>> > Subject: Miranda HD-Bridge OH No the DS doesn't seem to read timecode!
>> >
>> > Well had a worrying discovery this morning whilst testing the lasted
>> > beta version of the Miranda HD bridge software.
>> >
>> > Noticed that when I click play on the DS the servo light comes
>> straight
>> > on and the capture tool timecode starts counting from the timecode it
>> > last had in stop.
>> > The thing is the HDV transport takes approx 2 seconds to startup and
>> the
>> > timecode showing on the Miranda box doesn't start till a few seconds
>> > after play is pressed. The result is that the DS timecode is now some
>> 2
>> > seconds ahead of the actual offtape timecode. When stop is pressed on
>> > the DS the timecode on the DS snaps back the few seconds.
>> > So it's possible the Miranda is falsely signalling that the servo is
>> > locked and tricking the DS to thinking the timecode should be
>> > progressing.
>> > But it's frightening to image that the DS doesn't even both to check
>> > that the timecode coming down the RS422 isn't in sync with what it's
>> > counting.
>> > From the good results we're getting from the Avid Media composer tests
>> > it looks worryingly like the DS deck control has some serious flaws in
>> > it.
>> > I'm expecting at any point soon Miranda with just give up on operation
>> > with the DS as a bad job seeing as it works so well on other systems.
>> > Can anyone at DS contact Miranda and help resolve this as we're
>> guessing
>> > in the dark here. It will be a real blow to DS if the ability of these
>> > types of interfaces is denied to Ds users.
>> > At VET we're already having to bite the bullet and go with using our
>> HD
>> > Adrenaline as a HDV solution despite having to use Avid DNxHD
>> > compression because it works today!
>> >
>> >
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