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FCP & Sony BVH-2000 project
I’ve been asked to edit a project from numerous 1″ and Beta Tapes and will secure a Sony BVH-2000 or similar model. I’m beginning to consider best work flow, best FCP settings, etc. The clips will be edited into an hour network special and repurpose clips for licensing deals. I will need to re-compress to wmv, flv files. I’m also considering best set up for bins to log a variety of info, subject, date, description, etc. then export that info to ease producers searching project during editing and for web so potential clients can search for material to license.
My first question, is there a driver/protocol for FCP to control Sony 1″ or is manual “Record Now” the only option. I’m hoping to view, log and batch each reel.
Second question, anyone out there with experience with this type of project and any thoughts as to best FCP set up?
Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, FCP7, Snow Leopard, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4 – 1TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors. -
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You would need a capture card or io box from BlackMagic, AJA or Matrox to take advantage of RS422 deck control.
Pro Res would be the best sequence setting for this project. You will need a capture card for that.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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We have a 2000 and control it with the standard Sony 29.97 VTR protocol selectable in the L&T Capture Settings tab. The 9-pin cable goes from our Kona breakout box to the Sony remote in. When I’m capturing various media with different origins, I usually convert everything to ProRes or the most used media format.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.2, Motion 4.0.2, Comp 3.5.2, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.2)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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The BVH-2000 is a nice machine circa 1982. It has an internal TBC (Option) that processes video @ 8 bits (48 dB s/n) or the external BVT-2000 9 Bit (54 dB s/n) TBC. There is also a (?2015?) SMPTE Time-code generator reader option. I don’t remember the Dolby Audio Card number…
That was only 30 years ago!
Cheers,
Charles Hintz
Sr. Tech Spec. BVH-2000 (in the day)
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