Output 10 Bit to Mini Dv

[Walter Soyka]

[Rizwan Saeed] “I am trying to output a 10 bit uncompressed FCP timeline to a Mini DV tape for broadcast. I wanted to know what is the way the get the best qaulity results. Do I use SDI or Component? Is it possible to connect my laptop with a blackmagik SDI External Card to output without losing quality?”

MiniDV is a highly-compressed 8-bit 4:1:1 (or 4:2:0, depending on your region) format.

Could you use DigiBeta instead?>

Walter Soyka
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[Rafael Amador]

[Rizwan Saeed] “I am trying to output a 10 bit uncompressed FCP timeline to a Mini DV tape for broadcast. I wanted to know what is the way the get the best qaulity results. Do I use SDI or Component? Is it possible to connect my laptop with a blackmagik SDI External Card to output without losing quality?”
No need of any hardware. Transcode the movie to DV and print to tape.
rafael.

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jeff Greenberg]

[Rizwan Saeed] “Do I use SDI or Component?”

If your DV deck had both of these connections (it’d have to be DVCPro25 or DVCAM), I’d go SDI over component.

[Rizwan Saeed] “Is it possible to connect my laptop with a blackmagik SDI External Card to output without losing quality?
“

Nope. No internal cards can go on a laptop. AJA and matrox both make devices for output from a laptop.

Best,

Jeff G

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[Rizwan Saeed]

Thanks a lot