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Kona LHI and Sony DVW A500
Thank you Creative Cow members in advance for reading/responding to my post.
I am looking to purchase a Sony DVWA500 Digital Betacam deck. The deck has serial digital V/A interface (SMPTE 259M). Built-in A/D and D/A converters for both audio and video signals allow for direct interfacing with analog equipment. We are looking to digitize Betacam SP and Digitbeta as well as output to Digibeta.
Currently we have a MacPro 2.26ghz, Aja Kona LHI breakout box and Final Cut Pro 7. Can anybody tell me if they think this configuration is problematic?
Thank you so much for your thoughts.
Eddie
Thank you very much.
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3 Replies
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You shouldn’t have any problems at all!!!
Chad Tingle
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Thank you for your message and happy new year.
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The A500 will play BSP but be forewarned BSP tapes will dirty up your heads a lot faster than dbeta.Be careful especially with older or improperly stored tapes. It’s cheaper to run a component to SDI converter and analog to AES converter on your SP deck than to get your A500 rebuilt. That said, the DVW A500 is the workhorse of SD.
Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN
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