Dan Nethery
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XDCAM HD Disc…
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Thanks Tom, That was my thought too… But wanted another opinion… Thanx.
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Thanx Bob for your help, But I’m looking more for something just to manage our tapes. Postmap does an awesome job at managing out video on our rads, and I’m not planning on leaving it anytime soon.
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We have a bunch of Digibeta tapes and maybe a couple of BetaSP tapes here and there. What makes it so important to us is, we have a bout 4 years of Library footage on them. We still use tons of the content on 6 different shows. This last year we bought 4 new XDCAM HD cameras and have been trying to build up our library with some original HD content. But it will take time. 4 of the 6 shows will be dumped out to D5 for HD broadcast. And the other 2 will be HD next year. So we are planning on editing everything in HD. Hints why we are wanting everything in HD.
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No I haven’t. I found the App in the Kona Utilities folder (AJA KONA System Test). Do you have any suggestions on setting and understanding?
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James, try playing it back on a TV. When I dub out to DVD with Compressor or Sorenson Squeeze it look like poo on my mac…. I think it has to do with the video being SD, and my mac monitors being HD.
I’m in the process of looking into other alternatives for compressing right now. I’m about to build a DVD for three different shows and need the quality to be there.
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I did. What it really comes down to is I want the highest quality possible. We are shooting XDCAM, and HDV. (firewire transfer, thats the best the video will get) We are also about to start going trough 4 years of BetaSP and Digibeta tapes to upconvert to 1080i via the Kona 3 card. We are putting in a 60TB xsan, and have 4 or 5 work stations. We’re not to worried about drive space, we want fast render or realtime and the best quality possible. I just want to know what the best format would be for us to digitize our old video to for HD. Our final out put will be a D5 deck. So the other question comes to. What would be the best setting for my sequences to work with these different file formats for speed and quality?
Thanx, guys. I should have been more direct with my question in the first place. dan.
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My Kona Card gives me the option of Digitizing it at 10 bit DVCPRO, and my original tape format is Digibeta SDI.
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You guys are awesome on the info. thanx a million. I just moved from Avid Composer to FCP5. I’m editing in DVCPRO 50 for this edit season… 3 weeks left. Then on to finishing in HD. The one thing that I’m not happy about it the video quality isn’t there, in comparison to my Avid. My Avid is doing a 2:1 ratio. and the FCP with Kona3 is DVCPRO50 Highest Quality 8 bit. Am I missing something? should I have used 10bit? In a couple weeks I’ll test out the ProRess in FCP6 and compare it to my Avid.
Any thoughts?
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Your right, I wasn’t thinking when I posted this. I’m going to using AJA 1080i 10 Bit Uncompressed. Has anyone had any experience with this in FCP6 and Color yet?