[FCP-L] Re: VITC Sucks

You would think so but that is not the case in my experience with several machines. On Avid with an A-500 digibeta you can choose at the machine control panel and the RS-422 time code follows. The SR-5500 doesn't behave the same way no matter what you choose on the TCR selection. Remember there are more TC options on a 5500. You can tell it to spit 30 frame code down the 422 instead of 24 frame when using the Frame Convert output to add pulldown (A-10 Time Code Sense). Perhaps this architecture is where the difference in functionality stems from. It's like the Avid control is forcing the Auto TCR setting regardless of how the machine is set. I haven't tried this sense 3.5x or later and I no longer have an SR-5500 in house to play with.

--- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, "haventwoncrap" <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> I would think that switching the TC reader to LTC instead of Auto (on the deck) would spit out the LTC value over 422. It works like that at least when I'm doing VTR to VTR editing with the 5500. I only have FCP and in the device control settings I can choose between LTC, VITC, and LTC+VITC. I switch this to LTC and it ignores the VITC. Can't say for sure about Avid device controls but I'd be surprised if that weren't an option in there somewhere...
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> --- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@> wrote:
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> > The only time VITC suck is when it doesn't match the LTC on your record tape. As far as I know the problem still exists when controlling an SR-5500 with RS-422 and the ltc and vitc don't match there is no way with Avid control to force the record machine to read ltc only down the RS-422. This makes it impossible to make edits. Digibeta decks would follow the switch setting ltc, vitc or auto. For $100,000 plus why should the SR-5500 have this functionality or is it the Avid protocol? Can't remember if the same problem exists with FCP control. Anybody know?
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> > --- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Zelin" <maxavid@> wrote:
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> > > everything sucks if you don't know the switches and settings on your VTR or editing system. This is why AVID Editors say FCP sucks, and this is why
> > > FCP editors say Premier sucks. Anything you don't know sucks. (eeeh - give me my 1" VTR and my CMX edit controller - I will show you what editing really is !).
> > >
> > > Bob zelin
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Phil Mastman
> > > To: FCP-L
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:34 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [FCP-L] VITC Sucks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Both VITC and LTC suck equally when they do not match on a tape.
> > >
> > > --Phil Mastman
> > > Sandlot Pictures, Inc.
> > >
> > > http://www.sandlotpictures.com/phil.html
> > >
> > > > No, it does not.
> > > >
> > > > Bouke (Who remembers the days that you could offline maintaining original
> > > > VITC and generate an EDL from the offline tape)
> > > >
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> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "John Kilgour" <john@>
> > > > To: <FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:42 PM
> > > > Subject: [FCP-L] VITC Sucks
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> > > >
> > > >> VITC sucks
> > > >>
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> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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