Tim Brown Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 I'm also thinking that we could conceivably chop all space requirements in half if we could get a post house to digitize the footage using BitJazzs SheerVideo codec. Theoretically making it possible to use FW800 drives for some projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Ardenti Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Is it possible to transfer digibeta tapes of your film into FCP with an actual digi beta camera instead of renting a deck to bring it in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Stephen Williams Posted May 26, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted May 26, 2006 Is it possible to transfer digibeta tapes of your film into FCP with an actual digi beta camera instead of renting a deck to bring it in? Hi, If you have a Blackmagic card with SDI then yes. The DVW 700's don't have an SDI out as standard, the later cameras do. Using firewire 2 I have captured to a single hard drive. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Reis Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Its certainly possible, but one you easily build a Final Cut / Premiere workstation, use a low cost SATA / Firewire Raid and purchase one of those Blackmagic / Kona SDI capture cards and edit uncompressed SD material. Its certainly possible to build your own editing system and renting a Digital betacam J-30SDI goes for only $150-$200 per day. So renting a Digi deck is very affordable these days. In telecine, one could have Digi / DVCAM clones and edit offline using the DVCAM material. Later, you could go to a Post House and online using the Digi tapes since the timecode on the clones match. This is another low cost alternative. So even if you couldn't find a place to telecine directly to Hard drive, there are other low cost tape workflow alternatives. Its always nice going to tape knowign that you always have a backup and that you needn't worry about archiving the footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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