( Edit suite: Pinnacle Liquid Silver ver 5.6, with silver brake out box and Sony DSR 1800 tape deck.)     

After installing Avid 7, on our edit suite I can now only open Silver in Demo Mode.

The system reports "Hardware Not Found" and then tells me it will only open in Demo Mode.      

I have now removed Avid 7 and need to correct this issue of not connecting to the Sony DSR1800 tape deck.   

Question: 

Can it simply be resolved by re installing the original Liquid Silver CD software.

Will all my Work / "Projects" be SAFE.

Any help Appreciated

Andy

You will need to reinstall Silver from the CD. You may need to do a complete clean and re-install first. Liquid 7 overwrites some of the shared files, and that tends to be the problem with compatibility. Try and just re-installing Silver first.

As long as you did not upgrade your projects using Liquid 7, then you're fine. You're also fine if you did as long as you selected the Backup option when upgrading projects (in which case use the project file from the Backup area).

Besides SDI, the DSR-1800 has a firewire port, so you could directly connect to it from Liquid 7 as well.

Brilliant many thanks system back to normal will try the firewire setup with tapedeck on another pc with avid 7

Andy