002 slave to SMPTE from Analog Tape

[funkntech]

Hi,
I want to stripe a track of my 1/2" Tascam 80-8 & have PT (002) chase - Can 9 do this now? I have chased using MTC (not true sync) and this eventually drifts especially if your tape's transport is not stable...Does the DV Toolkit have any benefits in this realm? Thanks
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[daeron80]

AFAIK, the answer is no. Sync-to-tape ability is something that has to be built into hardware. It's not something that can be solved via software alone. HD gear has the built-in ability to read the output of SYNC hardware. I know of no other AVID interfaces that have that.

[Craig F]

9 should be able to do it w/ something like a MOTO DTP

[TOM@METRO]

I sync-to-tape constantly with SMPTE and a 002. SMPTE from tape to a MOTU MTP and then work clock to the OO2 via an EchoAudio interface. The 002 then follows word clock just fine.

[funkntech]

Thanks All - Tom, can you please elaborate on the routing of the 3 units? Are you going Optical from the EchoAudio? The MOTU is spitting MTC from the Smpte? Do the MOTU & Echo interface? Thanks!!

[New Hope Media]

The JL Cooper PPS2 will slave ProTools to incoming analogue timecode by converting it to MIDI timecode. You don't get external machine control in ProTools but you can certainly make ProTools chase the incoming MIDI timecode.
I've used it to stripe back to Digibeta from ProTools LE.

Have a look at the hardware here http://www.jlcooper.com/pages/pps2.html