Can I Capture 24fps DigiBeta with SONY DVW-A500 & BlackMagic HD Extreme Card?!

[Lisa Rolley]

thanks david really appreciate the helpful info – you are the best sir!

have a good one

best

Lisa

[Dino]

First of all, Digibeta can be 24P, just like so many other camcorders claim to be. That is, acquire a 23.976 frames per second progressive image, add pulldown, record to tape at 29.97. the DVW970 does just this. The tape can also be (as is the case here) a film transfer. It can also be a downconvert of 24 frame HD.

Certainly, Digibeta can’t actually be 24P (unless you have the rare slow PAL deck). However the image on it can have been acquired as 24P. I don’t want to get into a big discussion of what people mean as opposed to what they say or what they say when they don’t know what the mean… Suffice to say that nobody knows everything and very few people know most things. The trick is to know enough that the more that you know is worth someone paying you for knowing it.

That said, you can capture 24P (23.976P) from Digibeta. Blackmagic has, since before they did HD, offered the ability to do a live pulldown removal on capture (still SD only). It’s one of the supplied easy setups.

I must be bored, hitting an old thread like this.