Need purchasing advice

[Ed Dooley]

Actually I don’t own any Decklink products, I use AJA products, I just have very little need for capturing at 10bit, and we are a production house *and* a post house, where we sometimes do *serious* work. 🙂
As for DV, I don’t shoot it (except one cooking show in Italy a few years ago with a “just fine” DSR-500 and 2 weeks of World Cup Beach Soccer in Brasil this month with a “not as fine” DVX-100A), but DV with a 2/3″ chip camera vs DV with a 1/3″ chip camera is a world of difference.
Ed

[uncompressed] “great man, enjoy your decklink product. 8 bit does band. if the guys you have shooting are not pushing it, you will not see it. if your footage is pushing it, you certainly will. if you do post production work and try to pull keys or do serious work, it is incomparable. ask your post house if they want to work with 8 or 10 bit when pulling a key. there is 2x more info to work with. i can show when this occurs in dvcpro HD (8bit) and when it goes away when you capture uncompressed. again, if you shoot regular footage and don’t work in post or notice the difference. lots of people think DV is “just fine”.”