Firewire DV Vs SDI Uncompressed

[Walter Biscardi]

If your mastering output is DV or DVCPro, then use Firewire and edit in an DV / DVCPro timeline and master to tape.

If your mastering output is an uncompressed format like BetaS, DigiBeta, etc… then capture via SDI using the 8bit Uncompressed capture preset and edit in an 8bit timeline, then use SDI to master to tape.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

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[Graeme Nattress]

And for the proof:

https://www.nattress.com/Chroma_Investigation/chromasampling.htm

Although BetaSP is about as far below “uncompressed” as DV is, it certainly benefits from the rendering in FCP not going back to the DV codec as it avoids the mixing of BetaSP and DV artifacts, and that also implies that if you want to keep a master copy for yourself, you’re far better off mastering to DV than BetaSP, and best still mastering to Digital Betacam, which although not uncompressed, is very lightly compressed and is certainly visually lossless in it’s compression.

Graeme

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