X-Doug_Webster
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Oct 27, 2002, 7:30 PM
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I just tried using the DV transfer mode with a recently installed DV upgrade to my AVIO and spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out why the connection between my AVIO and my Sony TRV 900 camera would produce no video signal. I could click on the DV controls on the AVIO screen and stop, start and pause the camera from there, but no signs of a video signal. I finally tried the equivalent of the computer three finger salute...turned off both units, turned on the AVIO and turned on the camera and voila...worked fine.
As you know, the nifty feature tied to the DV function is that once you have dumped in a reasonably large chunk of raw footage, the AVIO looks for all the stop/start points on the original and automatically splits the one piece of tape into however many scenes there were on it.
I was using a video which had some gaps on it between various field segments I had shot on different days. In other words, all of the video in each chunk was contiguous with stop/start points, but when I moved from one chunk to the next, the time counter on the camera re-started at 00:00 and there was a lack of video signal between the segments.
In a couple of instances, when I tried to move to the next chunk and ready it for loading into the AVIO, I ran into the same NO VIDEO SIGNAL problem. Again, I rebooted both system and camera and things worked fine once again. Appears when the two systems lose connection because of a lost video signal, I have to introduce them to each other once again. A minor inconvenience overall, given the BIG time savings generated by the automatic scene split function.
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