Baz Leffler
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Is it a fat 32 formatted drive?
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PPro or FCP?
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I can see on my next deliverables report to Discovery Channel…
Aquisition: iPhone
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[Bob Zelin] “everyone here is giving you the wrong answer.”
Hey Bob – did you actually READ the original post? He wasn’t asking questions about ‘technique’… ala…
[Steve Kirkham] “Is it possible to somehow hook up a DA88 deck to my Blackmagic HD Extreme Card and capture the audio? “
If he asked a question of technique he would have gotten a totally different answer. He already decided his technique … ala …
[Steve Kirkham] “We have a 5.1 surround sound sent to us on DA88 and to get it capture to WAV/AIF files by a facilities house seems quite expensive… so thought i could get a cheap DA 88 player from eBay and maybe latch it up to my capture card and do it that way… “
He already knew of the ‘out sourcing technique’ so neither I nor Luke covered it. So how can “everyone here be giving him the wrong answer”?
Incidently Steve, Bobs suggestion IS going to cost you more than a second hand DA88 in monetry terms but it could cost you a lot more in time and associated issues.
[Steve Kirkham] “So if they ‘dumped’ to Digibeta that would carry all the audio right? “
Digibeta can only do 4 channels at a time (unless you use dolbyE at both ends) so it will require 2 passes and 2 tapes.
A cheaper way would be to get someone with a DA88 to dump to wave/aiff files. We do that all the time here so it shouldn’t be hard to find someone in your area to do it.
Baz
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[Luke Maslen] “the bandwidth was marginal and seemed to run slower than a x1 lane PCI Express slot in a computer.”
Interesting that Matrox seem to have got around that problem with MXO2 on the MacBookPro but they do blame bad HD performance on ProRes processor requirements.
Are you saying that when a more powerful MBP becomes available Matrox will have to think of a new excuse?
I run ProResHQ stuff rendered out of a Multibridge’d Mac on a MBP and a MXO2 with no problems but I can see your reasoning when uncompressed HD needs to be shifted.
Baz
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Sorry Steve no shortcuts. TDIF is a Tascam format that cannot be ‘passively’ converted. How else are they going to make money!
Baz
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Here’s the setup…
DA88 >> TDIF >> IF-AE8 >> 4 AES cables >> Blackmagic Audio to SDI >> HD Extreme
each AES cable carries 2 audio channels.
The Blackmagic Audio to SDI is this one…
https://www.decklink.com/products/miniconverters/
… but I am not sure if it needs an SDI input or can ‘add’ the audio channels and create an SDI data stream – I will leave that one for Luke to answer.
Just as a side issue be warned that a lot of DA88’s on Ebay can be a little dodgy and some are not fully optioned up but you may not need all the options. For just playing back you may find the DA38 will do the job sufficiently.
Baz
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Hey Luke – as a further suggestion ask the engineers to add an Expresscard32 interface (as Matrox does with the MXO2) along with Mac software and then we can put our MacBookPro’s to good use when back at the shop – imagine that…. I really am a dreamer eh!
Baz
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[Andy Mees] “the big orange bumper is a big orange gimmick”
I agree Andy but they sure are easy to find when piled up with a whole lotta other computer stuff!
Baz
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[Luke Maslen] “I’m not sure how many channels of audio the IF-88E module supports with the DA88 but I’m guessing it outputs all the channels”
We use the IF-AE8 (similar to the IF-88AE) and it takes the TDIF (8 ch digital audio) and converts bi-directional to AES so to confirm Luke’s assertion, it will handle all 8 channels at once.
Also with the DA88 you have a RS422 deck control which a Decklink/multibridge can control.
But if you are going to buy a deck try and find the Sony version of the DA88 as it has built in 8 channel AES which will also connect to the mini converter. Otherwise its a DA88 + IF-AE8 + TDIF cable (reverse 25 way DB25 ribbon)
Baz
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