Final Cut Pro 7 & RS-422 Deck Control

[waddington01274]

Hi, can anyone recommend a make (preferably Sony) & model of CD/DVD player with compatible RS-422 deck control support (connection) so that I can log & capture more precisely than doing it manually in Final Cut Pro 6/7 via Blackmagic Ultrastudio 3D Thunderbolt connection and am using a 8TB G-RAID with Thunderbolt connection as to capture and render audio & video media.

 

[mBox]

You want a CD/DVD player with RS422 controls?

Ive been around a long time I dont think Ive ever seen one.

DVCAM, VHS, SVHS, BETA, BETASX, XDCAM, etc...

But not CD/DVD player.

Im intrigued.

 

[mBox]

To add, the nature of capturing from optical is a bit cumbersome.
In past pro-house they would dump to a digital linear tape then use that deck to acquire from.
Saves the headache since DVD was hard to control frame by frame.
DVD codec and its old clunky bit handling

 

[pwhitehead]

With just having a cd or a dvd player, your going to run into a small problem. Yes you can capture from a cd/dvd player to Final Cut with any kind of media you want, but you need to have a firewire 4-pin out so you can use it going firewire into your mac computer.

In this image i have a dv deck with a firewire 4-pin out. Here (image 1)

And this image i get my connection from the device to my mac with a firewire 800 on the other side. Here (image 2)

You can use thunderbolt if need be, they have firewire to thunderbolt adapters. If you don't have a dvd player with a dv 4pin out you can use a video dvc tape deck and use component cables going out of the dvd/cd player going into the deck (daisy chaining) and get your signal that way. Hope this helps

 

[mBox]

also keep in mind that DVD and precision frame by frame control dont exist.
the GOP formatting on that codec is brutal and at times impossible to stop on a dime