Using your AVID as a Virtual Tape Deck for Encoding!
By Posted by Bruce Nazarian, forwarded from: daveb@electriceye.net from AVID info
Feb 24, 2002, 12:18
If you have Hardware encoding, and are looking to link your AVID as a Virtual Tape machine, you can do so, if you have the proper serial port, and this cable:
(reposted here by permission of "DaveB@Electric Eye"
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From The DVD List at Tully.com
Hardware:
You need a VTR Emulation cable. You can buy this from Avid or make your own. Here's the pin config:
for Mac:
8 pin mini DIN (male) DB-9 (female)
pin 6 ........................... pin 7
pin 8 ........................... pin 3
pin 3 ........................... pin 2
pin 4 ........................... pins 1 & 9 (tied together)
pin 5 ........................... pin 8
1,2,7 not used 4,5,6 Not used
for Windows:
9 Pin Male D-Sub 9 Pin Female D-Sub
Pin...Signal..........................Pin...Signal
1 Frame Ground................1 Frame Ground
2 Receive A........................8 Receive A
3 Transmit B.......................7 Transmit B
4 Transmit Common...........6 Transmit Common
5 Spare...............................5 Spare
6 Receive Common............4 Receive Common
7 Receive B........................3 Receive B
8 Transmit A.....................2 Transmit A
9 Frame Ground...............9 Frame Ground
Software:
Connect the cable to an open serial port and enable it via an Avid
setting. Your Avid software should already have this feature.
Cost:
Unless you prefer to buy the cable from Avid, your cost is only time and
cheap materials.
Benefits:
Everything you described. We've found the best setting is to tell the
Avid to disable roll-up (so it will jump to a search timecode rather
than roll to it) and when selecting a VTR style we like Sony DVR-20.
