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Output to Betacam over DVD?
Hi!
I’m an amateur doing some post production work which will be visualized as backgrounds for a theater and the technicians from there told me they prefer betacam instead of a DVD which is what I was going to output to.
They told me I could get my DVD converted to betacam on any professional video shop but my question is:Will Betacam provide a better image (resolution / color space etc.) than DVD?
If so it seems a pity to go to DVD to later on go to betacam right?
If so, how should I go about going from PPro to Betacam in one step to avoid loss of quality in DVD in the middle?Thank you in advance!
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6 Replies
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A DVD to Betacam will not improve quality. They may only have a tape deck and not a DVD player???
A shop with both would simply connect the DVD player to a Betacam deck via analog connections, play the DVD and record to the tape deck. Seems pretty dumb to me. -
Hi mike, thank you for your reply.
I think they feel Betacam is more reliable and there won’t be undesired jumps or jerky playback all too common on DVDs since they did not rule out DVD but rather recommended betacam.I understand it’s easy to go from DVD to Betacam, but that’s not my question. My question is: Is it a good idea or would I benefit from going directly from PPro to betacam? and if so how should I go about it?
Should I output to some hi-quality codec and send them disk drive with the rendered output? What codec would you recommend?
Thank you once again.
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Just connect a Betacam recorder to your PC via digital-analog converter (video card, camera FW etc.) and play the timeline while recording manually. This way you avoid the DVD and get best results.
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[mbevilacqua] “My question is: Is it a good idea or would I benefit from going directly from PPro to betacam? and if so how should I go about it?”
You could use a camcorder with PassThrough like mentioned or a converter like a Canopus ADVC300 which has a component output, or use a video capture card with component output like a BlackMagic Intensity Pro.[mbevilacqua] “Should I output to some hi-quality codec and send them disk drive with the rendered output?”
If editing in DV, the DV file would be fine, outputing the a higher quality codec doesn’t up the quality of the original, unless you use the codec for editing then you get bit better quality when editing and adding effects but not with the untouched footage. -
Thank you very much for your help!
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One last doubt though.
This is a PAL project, if going to betacam directly should I render lower fields first instead of progressive?
I’m also using footage which has been edited in After Effects and exported uncompressed progressive, should I change and rerender that too?
Thank you.
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