How do I Cut Digi Beta??

PhilNZ wrote on 10/2/2003, 4:01 AM

Kia Ora

I've got a project thats shot on Digi, which I want to cut on Vegas. I understand that I have to push it through an AYA or Laird box as SDI via firewire to keep the quality. What I'm concerned about is the amount of hard disk space it will take up. Does anyone know how much a 40 minute Digi tape takes up in disk space?

And is this the best way to end up with broadcast standard or am I missing something here?

Phil

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B_JM wrote on 10/2/2003, 8:28 AM

2 different things here -- if you pass the sdi through the laird firewire combo , you end up with DV avi

if you capture straight from a sdi card , you will end up with uncompressed avi , unless you use a capture hardware that compresses it as it is capturing -- you have several choices ...

John_Cline wrote on 10/2/2003, 10:28 AM

DV is about 25 megabits/sec, plus some overhead. DigBeta is about 90 megabits/second. DigBeta takes roughly 47 gigabytes of disk space per hour of video in its native format.

John

PhilNZ wrote on 10/2/2003, 3:29 PM

Thanks for that John,

So the long and short of it is you are using Vegas as an online tool and paying the price with extra hard disks.

I know that you can take a low res copy from Digi tapes with vegas but can you sort of online it later still within vegas. In that I mean if you go back to the digi originals, will vegas pluck the bits you want out as an auto conform?

Cheers

Phil

PhilNZ wrote on 10/2/2003, 3:33 PM

Thanks for getting back to me.

One thing, will uncompressed AVI or DV avi meet the standards set by the 'Techie Bods' who look over it with a scope? And which one has the best quality?

So basically you are saying that you can cut Digi with Vegas but you have to lots of hard drives?

Cheers

Phil