John Ladle
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SR2 is the dual link deck and D5 is the single link hd-sdi–correct?
you can downconvert in real time to analog or HD-sdi, so whatever you are hooked up to would be good in the 601 space.
i would not worry too much about the log RGB unless you are getting footage from a spirtit telecine, 950, genesis or viper cameras…
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AJA is the only official apple FCP 5 parter. it works awesome with FCP 5.
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/partners.html
the hardware up and hardware down convert as well as their 3 year warranty are easily worth the cost of admission!
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if you guys bend to linux, i hear the specsoft stuff is very good.
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great man, enjoy your decklink product. 8 bit does band. if the guys you have shooting are not pushing it, you will not see it. if your footage is pushing it, you certainly will. if you do post production work and try to pull keys or do serious work, it is incomparable. ask your post house if they want to work with 8 or 10 bit when pulling a key. there is 2x more info to work with. i can show when this occurs in dvcpro HD (8bit) and when it goes away when you capture uncompressed. again, if you shoot regular footage and don’t work in post or notice the difference. lots of people think DV is “just fine”.
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if decklink says analog beta SP is 8 bit, then decklink is wrong. not sure why they would propogate such information if indeed they are…
HDCAM is 8 bit, but it has over 6x the data that you will find in SD video, so not sure of the point there.
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you absolutely should consider 8bit versus 10bit. whoever tells you analog beta SP brought in or out digitally in 8 bit makes not difference clearly does not know what banding is. beta SP has far more information to offer than 8 bit crimping will allow you to communicate digitally. this is a major shortcoming of some of the SD cards. simply put, if you ingest or layoff in 8 bit, you are asking for banding. if you don’t know about it or don’t care-those are other matters!
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i think i took it as generally working with dual link footage which would be uncompressed 10 or 12 bit 4:4:4. pretty amazing it is this far when you think back to FCP 3 and the jokes other vendors having.
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do express pro and adrenaline allow for uncompressed HD? we are talking 4:4:4 uncompressed dual link HD. last i heard, adrenaline was compressed HD only, but that info was right around NAB. i know avid finally has DVCPRO HD, but i did not think they allowed uncompressed on anything affordable…
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for FCP 4.5/HD–everything. for the avid stuff, it depends. they don’t let that info out too freely. you have to ask the demo guys on the latest list for an avid symphony, for instance
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yeah, funny how it works, kind of. actually, a lot of avids do the same things, if you use certain effects in some of the higher end avid systems with 10 bit uncompressed HD, you get 8bit results.