[Tim Snider] “Source captured with Sony DSR-500 with YJ18x9 lens (DVCAM)
Footage captured with DSR-1500A via Firewire into Final Cut Pro, edited in NTSC/DV
Mastered to Betacam SP via component cables to deck from DSR-1500”
Tim – this isn’t too far off from what we use. We shoot on a DSR-390 and playback on a DSR-45, BUT we capture 8 bit Uncompressed through our AJA iO instead of DV. This way any layering and graphics look better. Then we also dump out to BetaSP for broadcast.
I’ve found the end result, for what we are doing, to look better with this route than capturing and working in a DV timeline.