Beta question.

[Jp Driscoll]

[Travis Miller] “I always figured that a television station would have a way to get it off of the dvd”

Hee hee hee! That’s funny because I work at a station that didn’t take dvd until a few months ago. We started getting local ads on dvd (most are from small-time prod houses) and finally we just bought a dvd player to dub from.

We also finally got a beta deck. Not a recorder though. I think we’re the only station in the US that cant record to beta.

Non-linear editing? Yeah, we’re still using the Panasonic PostBox. It’s a scary workhorse. Can’t do anything fancy without an hour or two extra for rendering.

I’ve been begging the GM to get a Final Cut Pro system. I think we may finally be close to getting it, but it’s hard to say. It took six years to decide to get new studio cameras.

Yeah, television stations, at least in the 100+ markets, are the last to get anything like that. I’m also pushing for P2 for acquisition. I’m just hoping we can get ahead for once.

JP Driscoll

WDAY TV
Fargo, ND

“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson

[Mitchji]

[Jim Cutler] “One question, when you send your DVD’s do you send a dataDVD with a file on it? or a regular consumer video DVD?”

Hi,

Put a QT self contained movie on the DVD. If won’t fit on one DVD you set the FCP “Limit Capture/Export File Segment Size” to 4.3 gigs. If you want uncompressed you could use the Sheervideo codec to reduce the size to about 40% without any loss of quality.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[MitchJi] “If won’t fit on one DVD you set the FCP “Limit Capture/Export File Segment Size” to 4.3 gigs. “

Hi,

This results in seqmented files that can be burned on multiple discs.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Bryce Whiteside]

Ditto!!!

I could see data DVD’s with uncompressed QT files for ingest into a station’s media assest system or NLE. It would work for :30 sec spots.

Regular video DVD’s–peeeee-uuuuu!

I am still trying to wrap my head around why someone would want to buy 32, 42, or 52 inch projection TV’s and now $2500 to $6000 LCD TV’s to have so much screen real estate to see all the compression artifacts of our current digital delivery systems.

Mutter, mutter, mutter…
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Max Frank]

Excuse the ignorace here, but if, as the original poster said, his source footage was coming off DVD, then would the problem be to run it through DVDxDV, edit DV, and take the Mini-DV to a post house to convert/bump up to Beta SP or DB for broadcast.

How much worse would the above look than going the uncompressed, DB route – considering the original was on DVD?

Thanks,

Wayne

[Bill Marcellus]

For what its worth, for the past year we have been exporting :30 spots in QT uncompressed to DVD, importing them into an Avid Symphony at a local studio where they export to a DigiBeta master. Station dubs are (for the most part) still in Beta SP and these dubs are made from the DigiBeta master. In my experience, anything going out for network requires DigiBeta.

Last year we did a series of auto races for national broadcast which we mastered to Beta SP ourselves, then dubbed to DigiBeta for delivery to the network.

I agree with the above that the price of a soon-to-be-obselete deck will pay for a LOT of DigiBeta dubs. HD is another matter- we will probably have to pony up for an HD deck…once we decide on which format to standardize on internelly.

Bill Marcellus