• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capturing Beta SP

  Posted by Samah Bennett on January 31, 2008 at 4:08 am

  I have some Beta SP footage that I would like to digitize at the highest possible quality.

  Does anybody know what settings are the best for capturing Beta SP? Not DV NTSC right? If anybody knows that would be great.

  Thanks.

  Raymond Tuquero replied 18 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  Robert Longwell

  January 31, 2008 at 4:22 am

  Uncompressed but you’ll need plenty of disk space and a fast disk.

  Robert Longwell
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  Petteri Evilampi

  January 31, 2008 at 8:06 am

  Apple ProRes or DV50 will do the job.
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  Walter Biscardi

  January 31, 2008 at 10:45 am

  [Samah Tokmachi] “Does anybody know what settings are the best for capturing Beta SP? Not DV NTSC right? If anybody knows that would be great.”

  You can perform a Search on this forum for BetaSP and you would find the answer almost instantly.

  Uncompressed 8 or 10bit are the highest qualities.

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  Raymond Tuquero

  January 31, 2008 at 4:47 pm

  Also, How are you capturing the Footage?

  Because the Capture device will include capture codecs. Like for instance, I have an AJA KONA and FCP captures the footage from BETA SP as “AJA KONA LH: 525 29.97 8 Bit”. You should look into your capture device, or check your audio/video settings and see if FCP sees a new capture preset.

  -Raymond Tuquero-
  Houston Editor

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