Outputting a project with FireWire to a JVC GY5000 (using Premiere)

lodgepole · 20-05-2004 07:55PM #1

Okay, I have a project created in Adobe Premiere 6.5 on PC using Windows XP. I have a JVC GY5000 camera hooked in via FireWire. And it won't export...

When I "Print to Video", I get nothing on the screen.

When I "Export to Tape" and tell it to send the record signal to the camera, the camera gives a "Record Inhibit" error.

The tape is not write protected, and the camera is set to VTR. When it's set to camera mode, nothing changes. I need this tonight (Thursday) so if anyone can help me, it'd be amazing.

I've tried the manual at JVC.com and it's absolutely useless. That is to say, I couldn't find anything in it.

ps, I've also tried exporting an AVI of the entire project (uncompressed and created with Premiere from the original timeline) using Pinnacle 8 and more or less the same thing happens. Nothing.

MrVestek · 14-06-2004 10:43PM

This is gonna sound stupid but, why not just burn it so svcd or something? Why do you need it on dv tape?

lodgepole · 15-06-2004 02:29AM

SVCD isn't of a high enough quality, I had to present the finished product on VHS and the best way to achieve that was to output back to DV and go from there to VHS. I ended up using a different camera to do it, couldn't figure it out...

MrVestek · 15-06-2004 08:31PM

Erm.. do u have a tv card? It'd be easy to just output to VHS from there then.

lodgepole · 15-06-2004 09:35PM

Originally posted by Achilles
Erm.. do u have a tv card? It'd be easy to just output to VHS from there then.

S-video out, but it's never been entirely successful at outputting AVIs at a high quality. Going straight from a DV camera to a VHS deck was the best way to go. And besides, I needed to hang on to the final cut on a DV tape regardless of what the client wanted it on. I can't afford the HD space.

pickarooney · 17-06-2004 07:11AM

Hard to find camera specs for that model, but are you sure it's natively enabled for DV-IN? The letters DV-IN should appear on the screen before you can output any video to it. A lot of JVC cams are disabled for sale in Europe, as with the DV-IN capability they count as recording devices and are subject to higher VAT rates.

lodgepole · 17-06-2004 10:45PM

Originally posted by pickarooney
Hard to find camera specs for that model, but are you sure it's natively enabled for DV-IN? The letters DV-IN should appear on the screen before you can output any video to it. A lot of JVC cams are disabled for sale in Europe, as with the DV-IN capability they count as recording devices and are subject to higher VAT rates.

It's in the spec that it has it, and my lecturer (I was in college at the time) said that it works (though he didn't specify whether he had actually seen it work). It's possible it was disabled for the reason you gave, i'd never heard that before.

Outputting a project with FireWire to a JVC GY5000 (using Premiere)

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