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Which dg player
Hi,
I know this is not the correct forum to ask this question, but since i regularly visit this forum here it is.Is the quality of playback of a dg beta tape on sony j-30 sdi dektop player equivalent to say sony dvw 510 0r dvw 500. I am thinking of purchasing j30-sdi and use it to capture i.e upgrade my edl for preparing bradcast master. then i will master it using dvw500 which i will hire.
thanks
sameer shrivastava -
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Digibeta using SDI is the same quality no matter what VTR you have.
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Agreed.
I have made captures from a DVW 2000, DVW 500 and a J-30 all to the same system via SDI and viewed them side by side. No differences discernible. The J-30 does have its timecode quirks and one sometimes finds a clip reported as having a time code break only to play it from a DVW 500 and capture it correctly. At other times, the same clip that is supposed to have a TC break has none when one retries. Very funky.
But for the price,the J-30 cannot be beat. And if you don’t have a central router or patch bay, it is small and light enough to carry from suite to suite. Very sweet. And a single BNC cable carries video and audio – digitally – into FCP.
So with a J-30, basic BM card, fast enough Mac, and storage to match, you’ve got a ‘online’ system that can give the big boys a run for their money.
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