Sony BVV-5: Advice Regarding Power Supply and VA-5 Recorder

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If you want the highest quality, you’ll want to use a component signal to BetaSP coming from a breakout box that will process uncompressed from the computer.

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“If you want the highest quality, you’ll want to use a component signal to BetaSP coming from a breakout box that will process uncompressed from the computer.”

Then to accomplish this I would want to follow this advice from a previous post, right?:

“But you must have a special cable that will fit your breakout box’s component output jacks on one end AND with a plug that fits that “camera” multi-pin input jack on the other (rather expensive cable, I’d think.)”

Any idea what this kind of cable is called or where to get one. Also, why do you not use one if it is the best soltuion for the inputting to the BVV-5?

Thanks so much for all your time!
J

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I don’t use this camcorder deck (BVV-5) for ALL of my dubs.

Composite is fine for many dubs (its all we HAD for years).

But when I really want the extra quality, I use a BetaCamSP DECK.
A deck already HAS all the proper inputs & outputs (Composite, Component, sometimes Y/C) and records and plays in color without needing to buy all of the extra adapters and specialized cables to try to make it all work.

Where to locate a component “Breakout Cable” for the “Camera Input” on the Sony VA-5 sounds like a job for “Google” search.

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Matte, I greatly appreciate all the knowledge you shared. Thank You,
J

[Tony]

Jackie,

You are using inproper gear for what you are trying to accomplish.

First of all the BVV-5 is a portable field recorder and was never intended to be used for high quality playback into any non linear or linear editing system for that matter.

Even if you use a VA-500 (which by the way is the worst playback adapter ever created by Sony) you will not have the benefit of a Time Base Corrector which is absolutely necessary for playback of betacam material.

The VA-500 was created for the sole purpose of making sure you actually got a recording in the field and confirmed the recording was in color not for any sort of high quality playback period.

Typical playback on the VA-500 results in lots of dropouts, low res image and the worst monitoring output possible which is NTSC without a TBC.

If you really want to use the BVV-5 for playback I highly recommend not buying the VA-500 and get the VA-300 playback adapter instead which features a built in time base stabilizer and SVHS as well as composite outputs. The VA 300 offers major quality playback improvements than the crappy VA-500 ever did.

FYI I have a VA-300 for sale if you are interested.

If you want to record in component on the BVV-5 you will need a 26 pin male to RGBX breakout cable which allows recording from a component source. This method is much better quality than composite.

Tony Salgado

Tony Salgado