Telecine to hard drive?

[Tim Brown]

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.

[Alex Ardenti]

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?

[Stephen Williams]

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

[Joshua Reis]

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.