Smoke Hd Archive

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Hi there,

I´m trying to archive an HD 25psf project to HDCAM tape but when I format the archive the app starts to write the header and so far so good, the problem is when starts decoding the header it stops and give me a message Cannot write header to tape…!
Did this happen to someone!?

I,ve allready change tapes, deck, project settings and nothing seems to work!

I,ve never had similiar problems archiving to Digibeta or to File.

I,m on a smoke 2008 SP4 using an HP8400, ref settings set to standalone, an deck ref set to input video as we do not own a tri level sync generator.

Cheers

[kakutarvn]

I assume you have the HDCAM archive set in the configs? Is it #commented out?

ClipMgtDevice HDCAM
To archive to a Sony HDCAM VTR, you must use the ClipMgtDevice HDCAM keyword and
not the ClipMgtDevice VTR keyword. The ClipMgtDevice HDCAM keyword adjusts the
metadata encoding mechanism to account for the compression method used by the HDCAM
VTR.
The ClipMgtDevice HDCAM keyword contains an optional start timecode parameter:
• If you specify a default start timecode for HDCAM VTR archiving, the specified timecode is
always used. You cannot override the default start timecode using the Archive menu.
• If you want to determine through the application the start timecode for archives created with
an HDCAM VTR, do not add the start timecode parameter.
The ClipMgtDevice HDCAM keyword uses the following syntax:
ClipMgtDevice HDCAM[, ]
where is an optional start timecode for the archive.

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