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Direct DV to Panasonic AG-DV1000

X-steven
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Aug 13, 2002, 8:04 PM

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I am a HS Broadcasting Teacher using Avio 1.8 with Avio pro software. Here's the problem: I am setting up project for direct DV and bringing in clips just fine with my Panasonic AG-DV1000, the avio controls the deck via firewire and the trasport controls work. When I go to finish and click on record to DV the deck starts recording but it doesn't get a signal, just black. I have tried 2 different firewire cables and put new black in the front of the project as per tech supports instructions. They are out of ideas. They want me to send the machine in but it just came back from them where they put a new DV board in the machine. I am loath to send it in so close to the start of school because I need the editor. I have 4 machines and so far I cannot record back to DV on any of them. I can record VHS though. Any suggestions?? Thanks for your time.
Steven Cortez
Blue Valley West HS

X-Doug
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Aug 13, 2002, 8:44 PM

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Hi Steven:
First, the 'bleeding obvious'--of course you have selected the DV port as your _input_ on the AG-DV1000 with the front panel switch, haven't you?
{I own both an Avio DV and the AG-DV1000}.
Second, and several other posters at the MSUS sponsored discussion board have painfully discovered as well as I have, that we haven't found anyone yet who has been successful in feeding DV back to the AG-DV1000 from the Avio and getting a perfect recording.
In my case, I get video and audio, but it whips back and forth on the screen while it's recording as if there's some perverse extreme time base error, and then while it plays back _nearly_ perfectly on the AG-DV1000 after that, there are intermittent digital dropouts of the video and audio during the course of the program upon playback. And worse, the tape won't interchange with a different (non-Panasonic) DV machine.
One poster on the MSUS site says that NONE of his Panasonic gear is compatible with the DV output stream from the Avio. He's contacted their tech support people, as have I, and have gotten nowhere with them. They point the finger at Panasonic, and I guess people have said that Panasonic disavows any problem on their part.
I just wish SOMEONE at MSUS would come to terms with this problem and stop ignoring it. And the irony is that I work for a company who is one of MSUS's biggest dealers for Avio and Kron and yet even we can't get an answer out of them as to why this is happening. For the moment we're advising all our potential Avio and Kron customers not to buy any Panasonic DV equipment to use with the MSUS equipment. I haven't had a stitch of trouble with Canon's I/O.

X-Banned_Bob
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Aug 13, 2002, 9:13 PM

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: For the moment we're advising all our potential
: Avio and Kron customers not to buy any Panasonic
: DV equipment to use with the MSUS equipment.
Maybe it should be the other way around ...
But for my part, I've had no problem with Avio/Kron transfer to/from the AG-DV1000 (except for the normal buzzes, delays and glitches that MSUS calls "normal" for the Avio/Kron series).

X-steven
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Aug 14, 2002, 8:15 PM

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Yes, I am in DV input on the Panasonic AG-DV1000. Wow! I wish I owuld have known about this issue before I purchased 7 decks. I hope that it will work soon.
Steven

: Hi Steven:
: First, the 'bleeding obvious'--of course you have selected the DV port as your _input_ on the AG-DV1000 with the front panel switch, haven't you?
: {I own both an Avio DV and the AG-DV1000}.
: Second, and several other posters at the MSUS sponsored discussion board have painfully discovered as well as I have, that we haven't found anyone yet who has been successful in feeding DV back to the AG-DV1000 from the Avio and getting a perfect recording.
: In my case, I get video and audio, but it whips back and forth on the screen while it's recording as if there's some perverse extreme time base error, and then while it plays back _nearly_ perfectly on the AG-DV1000 after that, there are intermittent digital dropouts of the video and audio during the course of the program upon playback. And worse, the tape won't interchange with a different (non-Panasonic) DV machine.
: One poster on the MSUS site says that NONE of his Panasonic gear is compatible with the DV output stream from the Avio. He's contacted their tech support people, as have I, and have gotten nowhere with them. They point the finger at Panasonic, and I guess people have said that Panasonic disavows any problem on their part.
: I just wish SOMEONE at MSUS would come to terms with this problem and stop ignoring it. And the irony is that I work for a company who is one of MSUS's biggest dealers for Avio and Kron and yet even we can't get an answer out of them as to why this is happening. For the moment we're advising all our potential Avio and Kron customers not to buy any Panasonic DV equipment to use with the MSUS equipment. I haven't had a stitch of trouble with Canon's I/O.

X-steven
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Aug 17, 2002, 1:36 PM

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Bob,
Give me some hints, tips, anything that I can do to get my Avio to record direct DV to my Panasonic AG-DV 1000
Steven

: : For the moment we're advising all our potential
: : Avio and Kron customers not to buy any Panasonic
: : DV equipment to use with the MSUS equipment.
: Maybe it should be the other way around ...
: But for my part, I've had no problem with Avio/Kron transfer to/from the AG-DV1000 (except for the normal buzzes, delays and glitches that MSUS calls "normal" for the Avio/Kron series).

X-Banned_Bob
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Aug 17, 2002, 7:45 PM

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: Give me some hints, tips, anything that I can do to get my Avio to record direct DV to my Panasonic AG-DV 1000
I don't have it out in the studio at the moment, but I believe there was a dinky little knob (small, black, left side under panel) that said DV / Recorder / ... or something on it. I had to set that to one particular setting. Try playing with it, and I'll try to get to looking at it next week sometime.