All those Sony decks have been pretty bulletproof for me.  Since you
were using Digibeta when the problem happened, I wonder if it might have
been related to capturing a SD signal.  I usually use a HDW-M2000 and
let it upconvert if I'm capturing from Beta SP or Digibeta.
--J.B.

Rebecca Duge wrote:

> HDSR; HDCAM; Beta SP; DigiBeta; these are our most used  tape decks.
> The one I was using when I started encountering the issue was the
> DigiBeta.
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Jb <jb30343@...
> <mailto:jb30343@...>> wrote:
>
>> What tape machine are you using?  JB
>>
>> Sent from my iTelephone
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2018, at 6:19 PM, Rebecca Duge editthis58@...
>> <mailto:editthis58@...> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey Gang,
>>>
>>>
>>> Because I haven’t been able to figure out a fix for the issue of
>>> Avid crashing when choosing a ProRes Codec in Capture tool, I’m
>>> having to switch machines.
>>>
>>>
>>> Therefore, can anyone tell me a good external setup for capturing
>>> (tape to file) on a Mac Pro Trashcan. I don’t have any experience in
>>> capturing to external sources (drives/RAID setups) so I can use a
>>> ton of advice as to how I should go about this and what y’all find
>>> works best in your own setups.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance!!!
>>>
>>> ~ Becki
>>>
>>>
>>> *SPECS:*
>>>
>>> Mac Pro (Late 2013)
>>>
>>>    2.7 GHz 12 Core Intel Xeon E5
>>>
>>>    32GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC
>>>
>>>    AMD FirePro D500 3072MB
>>>
>>> Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K
>>>
>>> Yosemite 10.10.5
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>