[Richard Sutcliffe]

Thanks for the suggestion. I had no success with either 1080 or 625 out of the deck and I suspect it may be faulty. It has had a nasty knock at some point and I believe there may be a problem. I moved onto capturing my beta tapes through the kona component and it worked fine first time. In the end I used the HDV deck to downconvert to DV through firewire. Not the ideal end result but it worked and there is no turnaround time on this job so thats how it has to be.

[Richard Sutcliffe]

Thanks for the reply Gary, first thing I did was check the cables, they are correct. I’ve tried the SMPTE format, no difference.

I’ve checked the component out from the deck, to a display, its a good signal. But something is amiss.

Anyone other suggestions for isolating the problem area?

[Richard Sutcliffe]

Tim, thanks very much for the responses and a useful article.

[Richard Sutcliffe]

Hi Matt,

Brilliant! Exactly what I was looking for, thanks for that.

Richard

[Richard Sutcliffe]

Right, that clears that up. …I think. Thanks very much Barry & Jan for the math lesson. I don’t believe that many people would argue that HDV is a better codec but to find the DVCPROHD bitrate suddenly slashed by 60%, well, I’m sure a lot of users would have felt a bit miffed. And in future I will describe HDV as a… What? Sub35Mbps codec? Maybe I just have a ready prepared paragraph on the complicated variations that I can just insert.

[Richard Sutcliffe]

Article on

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kolb_tim/formats.php

[Richard Sutcliffe]

To everyone who has responded to this post, thank you for your input, it is greatly appreciated. Bob, thank you especially for your detailed response.

[Richard Sutcliffe]

Now that peace and balance is restored. Do I need blackburst for a digi-beta dub? and how come a blackburst isn’t always needed?

[Richard Sutcliffe]

And to keep things on topic and not descend into open warfare, how is it that others can get the beta to work with the kona in the absence of a BBG and I couldn’t. Is it a setting on the beta deck or on my system?

Thanks.

Richard

[Richard Sutcliffe]

Thanks for the responses. Bob, I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I can assume therefore, that the set up I had was correct and that the blackburst generator was needed. You also specifically used the word analog, is the BBG needed for mastering to digi-beta also?

If these sound like stupid questions, then feel free to talk to me like I am an idiot. Given the recent thread about editors needing to know everything I’m not embarassed to ask. I need to rent gear in for mastering and so I would rather know what I need than rent it and find it wont work.

Thanks in advance