Hi Neil, thank you ever so much for all of this information.

We’ll definitely take a lot of it onboard, especially the advice on formats and legacy storage. Re. the initial digitisation, we unfortunately only have the ability to export via a composite output due to the limitations on the U-Matic VP-5040 player.

We’re currently also experiencing…

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I’m currently transcoding digitised U-matic and Betacam footage for archival storage and for the potential licensing of content. We also need to create files to allow public access (using a content management system such as AtoM for example) so they don’t need to be too hi resolution.

In summary we require

a: A master file for broadcast / licensing…

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Hi all, I’ve been tasked with digitising a video archive from multiple formats to hard drive storage. I’m currently capturing U-Matic tapes from a U-Matic player (model: VP-5040) using a BNC cable to a split out 44 pin serial header port on the Blackmagic capture card (Blackmagic Decklink Studio 2) using the interface Blackmagic Media Express… Read more