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Importing BETACAM footage for HD Documentary
I need some advice I have some archival 4/3 Betacam footage that I am going to put into my HVD timeline. At this pont the highest level of footage is HDV which was imported via firewire into FCP 6.04. I have some achival BETACAM 4/3 tapes I need to include. I wish to put them into the HD timeline with black curtains on each side with maybe some graphics. My question is how to import these tapes. I could DUBE them to DVCAM via component cables then import the DVCAM via firewire, or I could import the tapes via a AJA box on a FCP 6.05 system, with some BETTER codex such as PRO RES 422, and then hopefully import the files into my FCP. 6.04 system ( will this work?) I don’t want to import HUGE uncompressed files into the project. Any advice?
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AJA Kona board makes this so easy.
Up-convert your Beta to HD using the Pillarbox method to maintain the 4:3 framing of the original material. We do this and downconvert almost on a daily basis.
I’ve had documentaries with just about every format imagineable in one timeline and everything was converted during ingest via the Konas.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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I have an article on how to do this with the AJA Kona 3:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/aja_kona3.php
You can do this with the MXO2 as well…it has hardware upconversion too. Possible with the Decklink cards as well, but they are software upconverts, not hardware.
I do this regularly.
But you are working with NATIVE HDV, so capturing this as ProRes might be the best option.
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “You can do this with the MXO2 as well…it has hardware upconversion too. Possible with the Decklink cards as well, but they are software upconverts, not hardware.”
Shane,
This makes no sense for me.
AJA, Matrox and BM do the same. The tree of them are able to run their own software in RT.
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[Rafael Amador] “This makes no sense for me.
AJA, Matrox and BM do the same. The tree of them are able to run their own software in RT.”AJA and Matrox have HARDWARE upconversion…it is built into the hardware. Decklink performs the upconversion in software. This one way they keep prices low.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
[Rafael Amador] “AJA, Matrox and BM do the same. The tree of them are able to run their own software in RT”
AJA and Matrox perform their conversions via hardware. SD to HD, HD to SD and cross conversion.
The BM performs its conversion via software.
That’s the difference.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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