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exporting to DVCAM
How do we export DVCAM from Final Cut for broadcast? We are using the SOny MU-25 Deck.
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I’m not familiar with this deck and I did a quick google on it and there isn’t much available. Anyway you need a deck that records DVCAM.
Once in the digital domain of your edit system DV and DVCAM are the same thing as is DVCPRO25. It is the decks and the way they record the signal to tape that make the difference. Each diagonal swipe of the heads across the tape creates a pattern on the tape. There is more overlap of the heel and toe of each of these swipes on DVCAM than DV due to the 15micron track pitch instead of 10 microns of DV. DVCPRO 25 has an 18 micron track pitch. There is also a longer pattern as a result of the 33% increase of tape speed from DV to DVCAM. This greater overlap of the swipes allows for a more solid tracking of the signal in tape based equipment. Although digital, it is still magnetically recorded linearly on fine particles afixed to a tape base. Weaknesses in the physical tape particles can cause poor tracking of the signals which can be overcome with the added overlap from DVCAM and DVCPRO formats.
You just have to record your DV project to tape using a DVCAM recorder.
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