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Workflow Advice for Cable Program
I hope you can help me set up a proper workflow for a program that will be broadcast on cable.
The program was shot on 35mm film and dumped to Digibeta. I am working with Beta SP copies of the Digibeta dubs because I have a Beta SP deck but not a Digibeta deck.
I would like to know the best way to capture and ultimately output the program for the best quality.
Here’s my setup:
FCP 4.5
1 Terabyte G-Raid (800)
1 800 GB G-Raid (800)
PowerBook G$ with LaCie 800 card
Sony UVW 1800 Beta SP deck
Sony DSR 80 DV Deck
AJA IO LAThe final program will be approximately 6 hours in length, but can be broken into smaller segments. I would like to capture into DV timeline from Beta SP source. Should I take the DV timeline to an online facility to uprez for final output to Digibeta, or should I take the EDL to a house that can re-capture all Digibeta source footage for final output to Digibeta? Would outputting to Beta SP be acceptable rather than Digibeta? Is standard dubbing practice to match TC on a Digibeta to Beta SP transfer?
Thanks very much for any help.
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4 Replies
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[gtv2000] “Should I take the DV timeline to an online facility to uprez for final output to Digibeta”
Absolutely not!!! That is a certain way to insure the worst quality. One way or another you should absolutely online from the Digibeta original. Furthermore, cutting on a DV timeline is a bad idea too. I would suggest capturing and cutting at nothing less than 8-bit uncompressed, that way all your graphics will remain uncompressed throughout the entire post production process.
DRW
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I think I have too much footage (6 hour finished run time) to capture uncompressed on a total of 1.8 terabytes?
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[Kevin Monahan] “Drives are cheap.”
I’m onboard with Kevin on this one completely. With excellent 500gb SATA drives at just $179.00 each these days, no project, especially one shot on 35mm film, should suffer a major quality hit because drive space is an issue.
DRW
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