Digibeta Deck

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Digibeta Deck

Posted by Caral Dumon on January 30, 2007 at 10:14 pm

I have a MAC Pro G5 tower. 2 x 3 Ghz Dual Core Inter Xeon, 5gb of memory, running 10.4.8. I’m thinking about outputing my sequences from FCP to digibeta tapes. What accesories, plugins, devices will I need (besides a digibeta deck?. Any help or info will be greatly appreciated.

Albert

Cee Dee replied 19 years, 6 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
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Shane Ross
January 30, 2007 at 10:32 pm

You’ll need a capture card like the ones AJA.com and Decklink.com offer.

And if you are just outputting your DV sequence to digibeta, than that is about it. But if you want to work with uncompressed footage, you’ll do good to get a SATA RAID that can handle uncompressed, like the ones CalDigit.com has to offer.

Oh, and a broadcast monitor if you want true representation of colors for color correcting.

Shane

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Walter Biscardi
January 30, 2007 at 10:52 pm

[Shane Ross] “You’ll need a capture card like the ones AJA.com and Decklink.com offer.”

Or an AJA Io which is an external box. The full Io has Analog and Digital I/O while the Io LD is a digital I/O only which will work fine for Digi Beta. No cards to install, runs off Firewire.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Shane Ross
January 30, 2007 at 10:56 pm

Why do I forget about AJA I/O?

That is a great device.

Shane

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Walter Biscardi
January 30, 2007 at 11:00 pm

[Shane Ross] “Why do I forget about AJA I/O?”

I don’t knOw

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
Cee Dee
January 30, 2007 at 11:31 pm

you guys forgot blackburst/reference…
Walter Biscardi
January 31, 2007 at 1:44 pm

[cls105] “you guys forgot blackburst/reference…”

You can send a second video signal from either AJA product as a reference signal. We’ve done it here when needed.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
Misha Aranyshev
January 31, 2007 at 5:40 pm

Come on. AJA or Decklink ain’t frickin’ Targa Cine. These gadgets output good enough signal for DigiBeta to sync on incoming SDI.
Cee Dee
February 3, 2007 at 3:56 am

ok fine.. but if someone is asking that question, they probably dont know about reference.

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