[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Any answer on this?

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

My thought exactly but they say you loose some with every generation so I am wondering if you loose less with transcoding to a better format.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Genlock (some will disagree) is only needed in the old days and in large setups. Today, especially in your case genlock has no place. Timecode will serve you well. Replace every reference to gnelock in your question with timecode and you have your answer. If one of your cameras generates timecode (all of the ones mentioned do) and the other cameras accept it (all of the ones mentioned do) then you are good to go. If the master drifts (which it will – even the really nice generators do a bit) then they will add drift together and you will still be good to go. The timecode signal is really just an audio signal and you can use regular microphone transmitters and receivers to get the job done wirelessly. Additionally, if you really want to use genlock you can feed it to all of these cameras, as they all accept genlock, via a BNC or a wireless video transmitter.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

As a follow up:

I am torn (no pun intended) between capturing in DVCPro HD or through the SDI output of the deck to my capture card and then real-time transcoding to ProRes. I know at the end of the day only the most technical and sensitive will be able to tell but since this is supposed to be a master, I want the best quality possible. Would capturing as ProRes give me an more latitude and help with compression concatenation or not?

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Or you could configure Compressor to use all of your cores to begin with.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

While I don’t have a way for you to do this in Media Encoder I found out that if you setup a local cluster with Compressor you can get much, much, much faster encodes.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

David – check that email of yours – I’ve been trying to get in contact with you.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

I’d be interested in this as well – where can I contact you?

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Not entirely true as I can use a PCI Express expander to do this.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

I think I said that