matching EX1/3 with digibeta?

[Don Greening]

[Adam Rose Esq.] “would an EX1/3 do a good enough job? “

I would say that it’s more than good enough. EX1 footage intercuts seamlessly with Sony F900 studio camera footage. I’ve seen that for myself, so I’d have to say that you’d be quite happy intercutting EX footage will digibeta.

– Don

[Noah Kadner]

Ha- yeah I think if you shot 1080/24p the producer was suddenly start asking how to match the Beta to the EX1 footage. But alas, you’ll probably have to dumb it down to 60i.

Noah

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[Tom David]

Matching the footage to digi will be fine with good hardware – but you will have to down-convert to SD, and results vary wildly if you don’t have Blackmagic or Konja (etc) hardware to assist with that. A simple Final Cut sequence downconvert without such hardware will produce ordinary downconverts (such as weird and jagged lines – like on shelving, and car grills etc) – which troubles lots of people on this forum without that hardware.

Also, if shooting off tripod, should be fine – if off the shoulder, be careful – motion from an ENG digi shot off the shoulder looks very different to the potentially shaky handheld of the smaller, lighter EX1.

Cheers,
Tom

Cheers,
Tom

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[Adam Rose esq.]

thanks for the responses

some other people (another forum) have warned about the downconvert issues too, advising me to shoot on SD. They are of the opinion that only a Snell & Wilcox converter will do a good enough job. Me, I use Vegas, which has always done a sterling job, far better than in-camera downconversion.

regarding sticks: prob will not be able to use them 🙁

[Noah Kadner]

I downconvert all day long using FCP and Compressor- looks absolutely awesome…

Noah

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