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Recommend a capture card for uncompressed 8-bit over SDI?
I’ve got a number of digibeta tapes that need to end up as 720×486 Apple 8-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed quicktimes. Is it possible to find a card that can capture natively to this format? It seems like the blackmagic and Aja cards use their own flavor of 8-bit uncompressed. I want to be able to use/view these files on any system that has quicktime, without having to install any additional codecs. Am I right in thinking that Apple’s own version of 8-bit uncompressed is included with any quicktime install? Any way to capture right to this format, rather than capture to another uncompressed flavor and export?
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For several years both Blackmagic and AJA have used the Apple codecs, so your fears are unwarranted. After installing the drivers for both cards you will see selections when choosing Easy Setups that are labeled as either BM or Kona depending upon which drivers are installed, but the codecs are nonetheless all Apple codecs.
Most here, myself included, will recommend the Kona cards over the BM cards, because of their quality and best in business support.
Without knowing which model Mac you’ve got it is impossible to recommend a specific card.
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the matrox MXO2 supports capture to apple’s 8bit or 10bit uncompressed codec…. but you may well find that ProRes will save you a lot of drive space – and its generally 10bit
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