Recommended preservation quality SD capture card

[David Battistella]

Find something that will capture photo J-peg at 100%.

I think the only way you could capture this would be to a 4:4:4 codec with drives fast enough to sustain the data rates needed. I so not know of a Dual link SD deck.

Isn’t 10 BIT uncompressed 4:2:2 an adequate capture vehicle with a render to the 4:4:4 codecs.

Why the need to capture 4:4:4 in SD?

What’s the application?

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Mark Curry]

Hi David,

My thread states my purpose re: 4:4:4 SD – in short, this is a digital preservation job. There isn’t much point rendering a 4:2:2 capture to 4:4:4. The codec and drives aren’t the issue. The issue is finding a system/means (i.e. card) to capture 4:4:4 SD.

Mark

[Bob Zelin]

you people are all making me sick. This conversation of 4:4:4 is no different than conversations that I used to have years ago in the linear days when producers would insist that Digi Beta VTR’s were not good enough, and you had to use Sony D1 machines. Well, what do you think happened to all those D1 tapes, huh? Some good that did, preserving all that “truly uncompressed 8 bit SDI material” in D1 format. Stop this nonsense with putting 3/4″ on a 4:4:4 format. Capture it like a normal person, and stop driving yourself crazy. You want a format that will last for the next 100 years – transfer it to 35mm FILM, and you can be sure that someone will be able to transfer that to the new “holigraphic 8k” format.

Bob Zelin

[David Battistella]

Bob,

Thanks you so much for piping in. Once again, you’ve said it.

David

Peace and Love 🙂