Digital Betacam - what's the deal - 4:2:2 or not?

asafb wrote on 11/3/2002, 9:15 PM
Some people say digital betacam is "uncompressed 10-bit digital video" stored on tape. Is this true? Is it 4:4:4 or 4:2:2?

Does anyone have some sample digibeta footage stored uncompressed quicktime so i can see the quality? Just like maybe 1 second

what is the transfer rate for UNCOMPRESSED 10-bit digital video

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Tyler.Durden wrote on 11/3/2002, 9:37 PM
Digibeta is compressed. 2:1 DCT @ 4:2:2

Uncompressed 10bit has a bit rate of 270 Mbps.

MOre here: http://www.hut.fi/~iisakkil/videoformats.html#uncompr

HTH, MPH

asafb wrote on 11/4/2002, 5:50 PM
Martyh:

Thank you very much for that information. So the only way to acquire uncompressed 10bit video is to buy a D3 camcorder, huh? ;)