Thanks Mark. That was a new one on me too. Yes, it was the DP-24/32/SD series.
There have been some interesting developments....
I got ahold of the Japanese language service manual and I've found some very odd references to video files and "video file mode" and I had no idea what they were talking about. I thought I was hallucinating, because it seems to refer to being able to playback or edit a video file on the DP machine! At first I thought it was my poor Japanese language skills, but after talking with my friend in Japan who is a video engineer, he confirmed what I was thinking.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what this will do to your machine, so please be sure to back up all your files before you try this (or any experimental procedure for that matter)!
Using my spare card, I made a new test song, and loaded a video file (I changed the .avi extension to .WAV) and, copied that over to the Audio Depot. Then, I imported the file to Track 1 on my DP-32. Next, I pressed a crucial key combination referred to in the manual: Home + Mixer (which is a totally undocumented feature in any English literature). And this is where it gets really weird:
A video box appeared on the screen and displayed the video in real time!
The video thumbnail is tiny, but it does explain a couple of things about the DP-32 that I always wondered about:
- On such a small screen, why did they waste so much space between where it says "Multitrack" and the Title, In/Out block?
- Why is the machine calibrated with 30 frames per second (which is a video standard) when video cannot be edited on the machine?
But
video can be edited on the DP machines! Or, at least on my older DP-32 model with MIDI. I'm going to need independent confirmation on this though.
I took a quick snap with my mobile phone.
