Just to inject another question onto this thread…other than the deck, what do you need on the PC hardware side to get the video from the VTR to the PC? Do VTRs still use firewire as a means of data transport or does moving to this level suddenly change the whole game and you require high end cards in the PC as well?
Asking because we’re also looking at potentially moving from miniDV work up to DigiBeta, but it’s a bit confusing of what hardware makes up the production pipeline. With miniDv, all we ever needed was the camera and a firewire cable to the firewire card in the PC….done…. I’m guessing digibeta cams can’t dump directly to PC without a VTR.