Help !!! Print to Tape question

I'm trying to print to tape to the UVW 1800.
The recorder is giving a "No reference" error message.

Specs of your G5? FCP version? Capture card? Do you have a black burst generator connected to the deck?
Details man!
Shane

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Print to Tape Question

I have my Canon ZR200 connected through firewire to my iMac. I have everything finished in my timeline and want to print it to tape. I try doing that by pressing the print to video option. It then goes into full screen and lets me know to press the okay button when I'm ready. I then tell it that I'm ready and the camera starts recording, but nothing really records to the tape. I see the stuff on the screen, but it's just not making it to the tape. Is there a setting I need to fix?

Maybe this thread will help.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1827005&tstart=0
Ross Hunter
Orange, VA

Cant do anything with print to tape or recording from timeline! Need Help!

I have been trying to get my mac book pro to print to tape using a firewire and a jvc dv deck. when i go through the process and check to see if it actually did it, all i get is black screen with no sound. Then when i try to record straight from the timeline (like i use to do with Avid) i get the same result. Can someone help me out FCP is suppose to be able to do this but i guess not. All my software is up to date and i dont know why this is happening!

Is the JVC DV VTR set to the right input for Firewire? In FCP, look under the View and see how the output is set.
-DH

HDV print to tape? Help.

I can't seem to get my HDV sequence to print to tape. I am new to the whole HDV thing so bear with me. I am using a sony HVR-V1U.
Sequence Settings:
Frame size: 1440x1080
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD 1440 x 1080
Editing Time Base: 29.97 (can't Change)
QT video Settings
Compressor: HDV 1080p24
When I go to print to video it says: This sequence is not compatible with print to video.
Thank you.

Well, all I can think of is, are you trying to print a whole sequence from your time line? If so, make sure the timeline window is activated, but nothing in the time line should be selected.
If you are trying to print just a portion of the time line, you can mark in and out points on the time line itself. Either way, the time line window should be the active one.
You shouldn't have to hit record on the camera; check the 'Start Recording Automatically' box in the Print to Video window.
Also, with the V1U in VCR mode, go in to the REC menu and see if the DV/HDV record in setting is set to AUTO. If it is, set it to HDV only.
Back in the Print to Video window, what happens for me is, I set everything up, and click OK. Then, the render/conform progress bar comes up for a minute; at the end of that, my Mac's screen goes black, and a dialog comes up saying everything is ready to go, and I should click OK to allow the Mac to start playing, and the camera to start recording. When I do that, the green dot and pause bars come up on the camera, which goes into standby mode; a couple of seconds later, the red record dot comes up, and it begins to record.
I don't know if I mentioned this before, but all other firewire cables should be disconnected from your Mac when you're doing this.
It sounds like you have the connection established, if you can see the color bars and slate on the camera LCD; maybe there is an issue with what you have selected in the timeline to play back.

FCE won't print to tape

This is one of the stranger problems I've seen; hopefully someone knows a solution!
FCE will capture fine, but it will not print to tape. The deck is recognized; it starts recording and everything, but no audio or video shows up. I've even tried a different deck and firewire cable.
I also tried sharing to the deck in imovie, but with the same results.
Is there a preference somewhere that would cause this?
thanks so much!

You're connecting via firewire and not USB, correct? Have you ever successfully printed to tape using this deck? Do you have a camcorder you could try instead? That would help isolate the problem.

HVX200 Won't Print To Tape

I'm running FCP 5.1.3 on a MacBook Pro 17" with 2GB memory - my camera is HVX200. All went perfectly during shoot & edit. Now I can't print to tape.
I followed the helpful posts on hooking up cameras via firewire and got the camera to go as far as showing a still-image (from the canvas) on the LCD. This image changes whenever I stop the timeline (shows whatever frame I've got the timeline on but it doesn't move - the images are still-images only) The audio comes through - and records - perfectly. Camera won't record any images but records audio. The camera is set to MCR/VCR setting, using tape as media.
I removed the FCP preferences. I have Quicktime 7 installed. (Removed all receipts from QT.) I used disk utility to repair permissions.
My reason for print to tape: I have cinema screenings planned and want to project the film from a miniDV source instead of DVD because I think the quality (and reliability) would be better. [Any notes on this concept of mine would also be appreciated.]
By the way, as a test, I hooked the camera up to my PowerBook G4 with FC Express HD and the camera works perfectly as output device. I can print to tape there no problem. But the old computer can't run FCP 5.1.3 which is what I cut my movie on.
I cut the movie without the use of output device just the hard drives, my computer, and an Apple Cinema HD display. I have output successfully to DVD Studio Pro using Compressor.
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB Memory

Your cam settings HAVE to match your sequence
settings.
If you have the cam set to anything native, as in
24pn or 30pn, nothing will stream over firewire.
You haven't indicated either settings: cam or FCP
Need to know that.
Thanks for your reply... I'm getting closer to figuring it out. (I'm experimenting with camera settings now...)
I recorded the movie in 720 24pn. Does this mean I can't stream over DV - can't use the hvx200 as print-to-tape device?
My objective is to get image quality that will hold up when it's blown up to movie cinema screen size - the DVDs seem to show their compression when the image is big. Any suggestions on getting movie-house quality?
Thanks!

Print to Tape Troubles Info

Hi All, I just solved a print to video issue with the help of Joe at Apple support (thanks Joe for the tip on outputting to the HV20!) and a lot of futsing and trying many things. I thought I would share my discoveries in case any of you run into the same problem. I was trying to output a 20 minute HDV sequence to tape for a master HDV tape to give my clients. I couldn't play it out through the timeline because I am using a Canon HV20 camera to output to and it doesn't have a record button to manually start the record, so you have to have the computer tell the camera to start recording. Thus, I had to do print to video option. (This tip was thanks to Joe). But, each time I tried to print to tape the process of "conforming HDV video" would quit at about 10%, other times at something like 56%. I would get an error that read "The specified file is open and in use by this or another application." I had no other programs running and figured it was a render issue. So I rendered again and again before hitting the edit to video. Still the same issue. Finally, here's what seemed to work. I disabled the screensaver (just in case), I created a new sequence, I copied from the old sequence and pasted into the new, I rendered the timeline in sections completely, then I went to print to video, then I sat and prayed. It worked. I'm not sure what was going on, but these are the steps that finally got it to work. If any of you wiser than I in the ways of Final Cut have thoughts, they are welcome. I'm just happy that I finally succeeded and thought I would share in case someone like myself is out there struggling with this issue and wandering the streets muttering to themselves and having their loved ones begin discussing an intervention as was beginning to happen to me.

*Thanks for the thought, but that doesn't make sense to me*
Disabling spotlight for FCP scratch drives (or folders) is a common solution to this kind of problem...
It make sense because the "file is in use by another application" is usually an error that you get if spotlight is indexing files so it's spotlight that is using your file at the moment and it's normal that when you tried again you did not get any error... just because spotlight has ended indexing...
Do a search on the forum and you will find other threads about the same problem...
It's important to tell spotlight not to search your fcp scratch because you could get the same error in critical moments such as when FCP is doing an HDV conforming and sometimes it is possible to loose what was rendered until you got the error (so if you are at 99% after 2 hours waiting it is not a nice situation... don't you think?)...

Cant print to tape

I need help.
I have a dual 2.4 Mackbook pro running FCP 5.1.4. When I try to print to tape from the timeline, I get a black screen. I have audio, and whenever I park the playhead-that frame shows up on my dvx lcd. If I try to print to video-same thing. I record audio and a black screen. Once I stop, that frame shows up on the lcd. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

#8 External Monitor Viewing.
Shane's Stock Answer #8:
A simple path is mac > firewire > camera or deck > rca cables > tv
Then start up your camera and tv, then open fcp.
Then go View > External video > all frames
VIEW>Video playback should be Apple firewire NTSC (If you are using an NTSC set)
VIEW>Audio playback should be Audio follows Video
Techinially, this should send synched video to your TV
If for some reason you can't view your timeline on your external monitor, there are a few things to try:
1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.
2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.
4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.
5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices
6) Make sure the Log & Capture window is closed
If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section
Shane

How do I print to tape in final cut pro x

I am using final cut pro x, and the previous version of final cut, I could print to tape. Im not sure on how to do this with the newest version, can someone help me please?

Hello Randy,
This doesn't help you much now, but on the Matrox website it mentions that one of their devices will be able to print to tape from the FCPX timeline...it says "Coming Soon". Hopefully this is sooner than later.
Mike

Problems with capturing and printing-to-tape using FCP4

Having trouble logging footage and printing to video using FCP4.
1) When we log-in footage (capture) it constantly stops and says, "dropped frames". This usually happens after 10-15 minutes of logging-in footage. Why is this happening??
2) When we Print-To-Tape, it will suddenly stop! Sometimes it will continue Printing-To-Tape, but without audio!
Is this a common problem? Should we re-install FCP4?
We've done all the software updates, but we're still experiencing these problems. We've also cleared up our computer by deleting old FCP4 projects.
We have a G4 with three internal Hard Drives with approx 180GB each. We're using the Sony DSR-11 as our Mini-DV deck.
Help!!!!

We don't have Virex or Norton software in the machine. We have Disk Warrior which was helpful in the past with other problems. Should I run another check using Disk Warrior?
We only have one machine which has three internal drives. We've experienced the same problems using each of the drives.
We do have some video stored in the system drive, but normally we don't use that drive. The system drive currently has 70GB availble, as do each of the other internal drives.
We have updated our FCP to 4.5, but should we trying re-installing it?

FCP Crashing When Printing to Tape Using Audio Follows Video Setting

I'm trying to Print to Tape using the Audio Follows Video setting from FCP. I am using a Sony DSR-11 Deck and a Mac Pro. I was able to Print to Tape successfully earlier today, and I have done it successfully many times before. Every time I try to Print to Tape with the Audio Follows Video setting, FCP crashes. Actually, every time I play audio from the timeline using the Audio Follows Video setting, FCP crashes. I have deduced that the problem must be with the Audio Follows Video setting, but I'm not sure what to do to correct the problem. Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Well, what version of FCP are you running?
Final Cut Studio 5
How is your media stored? Number of hard drives, how full are they, ect?
I have two hard drives. One is 250GB the other is 750GB. I have my applications on the 250GB drive. All of my media is on the 750GB drive. My computer is brand new, so I haven't even come close to filling the drives.
What is the format of the media you are trying to send out to the DSR?
I'm going Firewire out of the Mac Pro to the DSR11 to a Mini-DV tape.
Have you tried doing a crash record?
I would rather not do a crash record if at all possible. I know that is a back up option, but I also know that my system is capable of working properly.
I really appreciate you trying to help me out on this.

Print to tape problems-Get the audio but no video

I'm going from a QT file I brought into FCS and rendered, et al to tape. I'm able to get the audio track output but no video!
The QT original of my film was 720x486 NTSC 4:3 H.264 and is a .mov file format. Bringing this into FCS, FCS asks whether I want to automatically convert the thing to fit the specs offered in tape output - which, when I actually look in the dropdown for output settings, don't have a 720x486 but does have the usual 720 x 480. FCS chooses the 720 x 480. Ok, so fine. It converts the clip to 720 x 480 and playing back the rendered clip t 720 x 480 looks fine and saves to a QT file fine but when trying to get onto DV tape, the video won't print. I do know it's possible to get a print to tape of my film since a week or so ago, someone made a digibeta output of my film for me using FCS and it came out just fine (I didn't pay attention to what they were doing exactly and perhaps they did some magic that someone else here might be able to fill me in on...).
Anyway, I'm stuck - canNOT get the video track to output to tape. Any clues appreciated. I've been through the output setting module a million times, tried creating a new QT file original to work from, and have confirmed that the recorder works fine because other QT files we created worked fine - though they were 720x480. But shouldn't the conversion FCS does from 720x486 to 720x480 suffice????
Help!

H.264 isn't supported as an editing format in FCP... convert the files to a supported format. If it seems to be OK in playback in the Canvas, I'd suggest you export it as a QuickTime Conversion movie and choose DV as the format... reimport that and print to a DV deck/camera.
H.264 is a delivery format, not an editing format... resizing it probably hurt the picture too BTW... If it's really critical, then you should do the above to the source clips and re-edit, but choose ProRes as the codec, and keep it 720X486... no resize that way. Re edit in a ProRes sequence matching the frame rate and size. FCP will set it up for you when you drag to it just as it did before, but it will not resize in that case.
Jerry

When sending sequence to DVD or Print To Tape, resulting video is terrible. Audio OK. Canvas playback is fine, but external video bad. First time this has happened.

I've tried making a DVD via DVD SP, also Print To Tape and the results are inferior video. Audio is OK. Everything plays back fine in canvas. But external video results very low quality. First time I've had this happen and I've looked through all the settings I can find -- no clue as to what may be happening here. Any help greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I'm working with FCP 7. The resulting video, exported either to DVD SP or via Print To Tape, is poor. This is an HD sequence, converted to DV. I've done this many times before with fine results. What I'm currently seeing is not from the conversion. Are there are any settings/prefs that might be at fault?

HDV Print-to-Tape problems

About a half hour into a "print to tape" from an HDV sequence to a Sony M25U HDV tape deck, I get an error message that has something to do about a specified file being locked [first issue]. Since I could not determine which file it was having a problem with I decided to render a complete self contained Quicktime and then output that.
When I try to print that to tape it skips [second problem] and it appears to do that with any rendered quicktime. I would think that FCP should have no problems with files that it rendered. This happens with multiple tape decks and FCP workstations.
Anyone else experiencing this? Any suggestions on how to resolve this?
Thanks

Cody,
I have a Z7 which should operate pretty much like the FX1. I did this about a month ago and remember struggling with it. Here are my notes, which may or may not help. It is only vague in my mind at the moment, sorry.
1. I am pretty sure when editing I had Render Control set to ProRes, as you do. When I did print to video, I copied my whole sequence, then put it into a new HDV sequence where the render was set to HDV. This took a long time--2:1 on my MacPro Dual 3GHz. I also have starred here--"When copy to HDV sequence, check titles/etc to make sure aspect ration still OK."
2. I have this part starred--"EACH TIME print to HDV tape on Z7U, go into Easy Set-up and choose HDV 1080i60. Defaults to custom which won't work."
3. Here are some more notes I took, which aren't particularly clear to me at the moment
PTV with the "Different settings" box checked and have this be HDV (1440x1080i60). That may have had to do with the fact I was using the MXO and monitoring with a second monitor. May not apply to you. I also see the note "Playback HAD been set to none".
4. Also this last note:
"Camera AV set to HDV, not 'auto' for this. Usually have on auto. Also FW out HDV-->DV is still ON, which is what need for timecode through AJA. Still seems to record into camera as HDV. Instruction book says to turn this 'off' when record HDV to tape, but seems to work either way."
Hope one of these notes helps you. If I had to pick one to try first, it would be #2. I had it starred the most
Sharon

Timecode problems when Printing to tape HDV sequence

I have a project fully edited in HDV format and I want to make a master on tape to archive. I have done this before with no problems but now I have an odd issue. After FCP has printed to tape and I review the footage on the deck (camera is the recording device). The picture is on tape and looks fine but the timecode is not function properly. Instead of running continuously it freezes and then will skip forward some. Again the picture is there and looks fine. I have switched out the decks and the tapes and tried it 5 times but with the same results. What makes this more odd is the first hour of footage runs properly and then after that the problem starts.
I played back other projects like this that I did the same way and the timecode runs correctly. This is a very odd issue and hoping someone else has seen this before and can help. Thanks!

Try exporting the sequence as a self contained movie, then try recording that. My guts say the HDV you're working with is just not allowing your CPU to keep up with it all, and TC might be where this is showing up. But a single file playing back would make things easier on your system all round, and it's lossless. File/Export/QT movie... then check on make self contained, and leave off recompress all frames. This is lossless quality wise.
Sure it's not just dirty heads or something on your recording devices? LIkely not, but it's a shot in the dark from here.
Jerry

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