digi beta card

[rob spence]

hi,

I want to do digi beta editing, I have the last and best of the apple G4s. It is a dual 1.42 with 2 gig of ram. I also use Final Cut pro 5.1.

 

What video card do I need to capture digi beta?

 

Many thanks

 

rob spence

[Phil Rhodes]

Something like this, assuming you have a digibeta deck with SDI output (which you should)

 

http://blackmagic-design.com/products/sd/

 

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[rob spence]

Thanks Phil...interesting site.

 

Are there any good older makes of cards that could be found on the used market...ebay etc?

 

best

rob spence

[Phil Rhodes]

Just old Decklinks, I assume. I don't know what slots the G5s had in them - you'll probably want to ensure it goes in something more than a basic PCI slot so as to have a healthy safety margin on bandwidth.

 

AJA have a line but I'm not so familiar with it.

 

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[David Auner aac]

Hi Rob,

 

try to get a Blackmagic Decklink SD used, Some people I know are selling them to switch to HD cards. I have a PCI-X Decklink, the newer ones are PCI-E mostly. You need at least a PCI-X slot for them to function, though since PCI-X is backwards compatible one could try a 64bit PCI too, but I am not sure whether this would work or damage the card.

 

Cheers, Dave