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Seacam to NTSC
I just received a bunch of tapes from Russia that play in my Sony deck but do not capture in FCP thru firewire. ( Audio work but video does not)
Since I have no idea what camera setting or format it was shot in I am not sure how to sucessfully capture unless I go to analog.
Encoding 8 tapes and then capturing to FCP seems like alot of time!
?Im just wondering what standards are used in Russia? Can FCP handle this footage without encoding to analog? -
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From you post tile, I am assuming the tapes are Secam. Either way the first thing a Google search brings up is this link – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECAM which shows Russia is Secam.
Secam, a PAL variant, is 25 fps so it won’t be possible to capture them via firewire or analog into an NTSC project. My advice would be to have them professionally converted to NTSC onto new tapes that you can capture.
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what kind of tape’s are they.
secam is a composite norm. if this is used on your tape.
let them be dubbed by a company owning a Secam decoder to the standard you need.
yes your stuff wil go through a analog stage. if this is done
the good way you won’t lose that much quality. keep in mind if it has been secam it has been composite anyway.greet
Maurice
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