Capturing Uncompressed Footage (Beta or higher)

[Graeme Nattress]

The BBC stored their composite backups of their 2″ and 1″ masters on D3, a composite digital format. This allows them to use a newly developed PAL decoder (the “Transform” decoder) to convert the composite back to PAL in much higher quality that, say, the composite to component PAL decoder in a DigiBeta Deck. The DVD’s they’re making from this process are looking better than the programmes have every looked before!

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Ken Pugh]

Best analoge format? I thnk I’d put my money on the Panasonic M2 format, their rival to Beta SP. Thames TV and Anglia were just about the only two to use it in the UK. But just like VHS versus Betamax, having the best quality doesn’t neccessarily mean winning the standards war.

Ken.

[Alex Hawkins]

This is a very captivating thread.

So Graeme what was quad 2″? Was it a composite tape format or what?

I’d have to agree with you, I always thought that 2″ 1st gen pics looked sharper and had better colour resolution. Do you know if this is correct specs wise or not?

Thanks for your knowledge.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia