Aja IO and sony dsr 11

Will the AJA IO work with Sony dsr11 deck? Which is only firewire and no RS 422 connection.
pls for uncompressed video do i need to buy another deck?
thanks
sameer

Don't use the IO. Capture as DV/NTSC via firewire, and when you lock your cut, simply drop it into an uncompressed timeline and render. You gain nothing by capturing DV as uncompressed...it only helps titles and stills in the timeline.
But if you capture then render, it will look the same and save you drive space. Then you can output to the format you need to...like digibeta.
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I do have an extra firewire card - but its a recent extra to my system to simply increase the number of my firewire sockets.
I've been using the AJA with the standard sockets for about a year with no problems, (observing the AJA / video deck thing that I mentioned in my previous post.)
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Some say that the PCI card is on a completely different buss and so will not be confused with firewire connections on the actual Mac, others disagree.
I prefer to avoid conflicts, (my life is complicated enough and I like to keep my edit suite in a friendly mood...) so I just run the AJA or the firewire DSR-11 deck.
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FCP uses a different form of QT than iMovie for capturing, so if the camera works in iMovie (or if it's listed in System Profiler) but not FCP, it obviously means your Mac can see the VTR but FCP can't, so you need to do this QuickTime fix.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
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Still not working? Try a different Firewire cable.
Failing all this, try resetting the PMU (Power Management Unit). The method varies from machine to machine, so visit the Apple site and search for it in support.
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I am unable to capture 16:9 footage shot on Sony DSR PD170 correctly.

It appears "stepped or skipped". The audio is in sync, but the picture looks as though a few frames are skipped. Sort of like the old "Max Headroom" tv show. I am using firewire cable directly from the camera to the computer. Recorded on miniDV tape - new.
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Device control: Firewire NTSC
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I logged the footage without a picture or audio in FCP, used my camera's monitor. FCP was reading the TC in the Log and Capture window, and I was able to input In and Out points to log.
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Many, many thanks for sticking with me. I've finally got the footage to work. Checked it by shooting new 16:9 footage and inputting it as well. Have gone back to the original and discarded the iMovie stuff.
Believe my problem was in my settings when I changed these, everything worked: Under System Settings.> Playback Controls I changed RT to unlimited, Video Quality and Frame Rate to Dynamic, and Record to Full Quality, Frame offset is 4. (I don't know what the frame offset is.)
Under User Preferences> Render Control Render and Resolution are now 100%, Codec is same as sequence codec, Quality is Best, and I've checked always use best quality when rendering
Sorry, I don't know what the settings were before I began, just know that I changed some of them to these. Thanks again.
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Title says it all.
We have a new Mac Pro with two 22" monitors using both of the graphic car DVI ports.
However with have this beatiful 60 inch monitor next to us that we would like to hook it up to.
The monitor has BNC Component connections, VGA connections, A/V Connections, and more.
We have a Sony DSR-45A deck hook up to our computer via firewire.
We hooked up the deck using the component BNC cables.
I know in Final Cut Pro we can run footage back and forth from the deck to the computer and back into the monitor for playback.
What I would like to know is if Quicktime could also read the DSR-45A and play stuff on the NTSC monitor or if there is any other program that can playback footage on the monitor through the DSR45A.
Or am I out of luck and should just suck it up and get 2nd graphics card.
Please note I just spent $20,000 If i can save $600 by getting around not buying a graphics card I would love to.
Please not computer info on bottom is my home comp not my work.

Sony DSR-1500a not recognized by Mac Pro 2009

My first post. Hope I'm doing this right....
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Hello,
I'm running FCP 3 & 5 and I use a Sony DSR 30 deck. The deck works fine on FCP 3, but having just got a new mac running Tiger and FCP 5, it no longer works.
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Hello there,
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thick skin, oliver, thick skin.
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