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3000 hours of Beta SP, best way to capture?
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[Bouke Vahl] “Walter,
the OP asked ‘any ideas’
Well, i have some,
Do you?”https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1052331
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DV50 is a nice 8 bit 422 codec but IMX50 was a bit nicer … at least according to the eye (and the scopes) of my engineering buddys
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Why do you need/want to capture 3,000 hours of footage? Knowing that will help people to make better suggestions.
If you’re working on a doc, then I would say screw the quality, just offline it as OfflineRT or the new ProRes Proxy, and worry about quality when you online.
If you’re digitizing a library, then we also need to know if it’s supposed to be cross platform. If it’s FCP only, then use ProRes SQ. If it’s cross platform, use Photo JPEG at 75% or test out the suggested IMX codec.
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I’ve become very fond of MPEG-2.
1080 at 35Mbps (EX-1) looks great.
An SD at 50Mbps will rocks.
IMX or XDCAM 422 would be two very good options.
For working with PC there are available re-wrappers for XDCAM QT movies.
rafael -
We’re archiving our tape archive, and we’d like to edit it from the raid on our FCP machine and preferably our PCs too. Thanks for your help.
IMX seems to be the way we’re headed at the moment, unless there are any good reasons not to. What advantage does ProRes SQ have over IMX?
thanks alot
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Our deck is labelled PVW, would this be better or worse in terms of noise?
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PVW is a lot better than UVW, but still not the best you can get.
Just wear out the heads (You definitly will with this amount of footage) and then buy something else…
(Probably cheaper than a revision)Bouke
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[Nigel Askew] ” What advantage does ProRes SQ have over IMX? “
Proress is 10b Intraframe. This on capturing an analog source should yield better quality.
In the other hand files are at least two folds of the IMX.
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Betacam cannot be captured faster than real time. Assuming you are using many more 30 minute cassettes than 180 minute units, including opening and closing the tape cases, cleaning the heads every now and then, and cassette eject and load, 3000 hours of footage will require 375 10-hour person days. That’s three years of regular work weeks.
consider also that merely having the footage online is useless if you don’t know what it is so cataloging your footage is just as critical as capturing it. That’s another 200-400 hours of excruciating clerical work.This project will never get funded or, if it does, it will never be finished.
I’d take a really close look at the footage inventory before starting this project and dedicating all efforts to capturing the cherries first.bogiesan
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What the heck kind of project has 3,000 hours of footage? That’s 125 days worth. Holy Moly.
Have as good a day as you can.
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