Devin Crane
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Lines of resolution don’t refer to how many horizontal pixels there are from top to bottom but how much detail your camera or recorder actually displays. It has more to do with the amount of detail within the 525 lines and is measured with a resolution chart nothing to do with how many lines go up from top to bottom. In the same sense Beta Sp is only able to display somewhere around 360 lines of resolution, Analog TV and RF signals are 336 TVL/ph: 4.2 MHz luma bandwidth, DV runs somewhere around 500.
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“In my opinion, the show needs to look as good as humanly possible in my NLE long before broadcast when the guy with the checkbook is sitting beside me signing off on it! I’d prefer not be explaining compression and 300 lines, how once to air it will all smooth out and so on!”
Then go for it spend the extra if money isn’t an issue, we’ve been working with both IMX and beta and the IMX is so much better, can’t tell the difference between it and UC captured straight from the camera. I’m sure Digibeta is similar.
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Yes digibeta is better but in end your broadcast is going to be compressed and your resolution limited to 300 anyways. We have a station that broadcast our IMX50 tape through direcTV and a local station that airs a beta tape over DTV. The Beta Tape looks so much crisper over DTV than the IMX through DirecTV, although the IMX is so much cleaner and crisper than the Beta in Post. So if money is an issue go with Beta Sp.
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How about “Editing Custodian” : )
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Although i have talked to only 1 person that didn’t accept Beta SP and they are in the Cayman Islands. Of course you cannot purchase a Beta Sp deck new anymore, go figure. The day everyone has an HDCam Deck Sony will stop making it.
I will dance with joy once we send out our last Beta Tape
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Yes you can throw away your MXF files but like Shane says if something goes down you won’t have a back up.
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Are both the Beta Deck and the IO hooked up to the same Sync Generator?
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I think it matters what your reason is for going, last year we had no reason to go because we weren’t purchasing anything. This year we are more than likely going since we are about to upgrade our studio. It’s nice to look at in person all the different cameras and test to see if they are worth what they boast about on their websites. Websites can be bloated with there own opinions and it’s hard to get a review on cameras that do more than DV and HDV.
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We’re currently shooting a 4 camera SD through triax into basestations and recording to IMX tape and XDcams for ISOs. We are looking to upgrade to HD in the next year or so and are looking at our recording options. After our shoot we re-cut our projects in multicam, so it will be nice to have everything file based on Hard Drives.
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It won’t be long, with all the system integrators that I’ve talked to, people are moving away from Avid in droves. Some of the largest productions I know of who where once Avid have made the switch over.
Devin Crane