#Soft VTR
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I'm wondering if anyone can give me any hints on using Soft VTR. The company I
work for got it so we could lay animation to tape. We're using an AMPEX CVR-40
Betacam VTR and are having problems with frames being dropped. When I used 3DS
it with the supplied ADI driver it was dropping 1 for about every 3 or so it
laid down. I talked with Moonlight and they suggested using the DOS script
utility. This was much better and only dropped a few frames out of the 150 we
had to put down. I think that something may be wrong with the time code on the
VTR as it seems to never be able to get the right frame number when inserting
the dropped ones in. Also, one of the Tech's at Moonlight said that frame
dropping was pretty common on Sony BVW-40' and the Ampex I mentioned above.
Soft VTR thinks it's a Sony. But – we have an Artstar machine which renders
frame by frame to the AMPEX VTR and I've been told that frames never get
dropped going that route. One more thing. There's a Sony Digital Betacam deck
in the edit suite and I was wondering if anyone knew if Soft VTR will control
it. I just got this job and so far it's way cool. Lots of toys. I can finally
learn more about video… Any suggestions?
Dave Mennenoh
David,
>> having problems with frames being dropped. <<
What is your framebuffer? If it's a targa+ 64, then I may be familiar with the
problem. Take a look at the readme.doc that comes with 3dsr3. I've found the
utility tplusloa.exe which comes with the diaquest board set (but which may be
available from somewhere else). It's just a targa file loader for the targa+
series that Diaquest supplies.
Let me know if you have a targa+ – if you don't, I'm not sure what to do.
Martin, it's a Targa+ 16/32. You mentioned a 64 specifically though. Could that
still be the problem? It seems unlikely to me. The utility I'm using to pull
them up is gettga, which comes with the card, and it only dropped a few in 150
frames. That was from DOS with the SCRIPT util. Within 3DS it was dropping a
lot more. But, if you have something I'd be happy to hear it.
Dave Mennenoh
David,
>> The utility I'm using to pull them up is gettga <<
just a thought, but you could try the tplusloa.exe utility from Diaquest.
Hi David,
I had the same problem with Soft VTR & a Sony 9850 3/4" deck. It
turned out to be the deck. It had a tendacy to creep
and Soft VTR couldn't line up for acouple frames then it would. I'd
check out the deck first and see if thats the problem.
Good luck!
JC