How to get DigiBeta into Vegas Video

asafb wrote on 9/30/2002, 7:08 PM

Okay, putting money aside ($$), can someone tell me how to acquire in Digital Betacam and then transfer the 4:2:2 through SDI into AVI format and then read that in Vegas Video?

Is this the professional norm for DVD production of the "special features" section where they present it in 4:3 full frame?

Thank you,
AB

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Tyler.Durden wrote on 9/30/2002, 7:23 PM

Hi Asa,

An SDI capable video card should come with some capture software. You might use that to capture and then open in Vegas.

FWIW: the files will be extremely large, and use a lot of processor to work with. That's why edit*, Incite, Liquid and others are run on very fast dual-processor machines with big drive-arrays.

HTH, MPH

GaryAshorn wrote on 9/30/2002, 8:28 PM

Not only that but Liquid in Silver and Blue and I think Purple in limited fashion has the InTime cards and can be ganged giving 6 processors per card to handle the data. Very nice machine and software and powerful to handle 4:2:2 high data rate files. VV3 to use those files may be a bit slow....

Gary Ashorn, PE

SonyEPM wrote on 9/30/2002, 8:48 PM

Probably your best bet for SDI i/o is the Matrox Digisuite LE. You'll have to edit inside Vegas (no external preview) and capture/print with Digitools...but the quality is excellent.

asafb wrote on 10/1/2002, 8:07 PM

SonicEPM: They will be AVI files to be opened by vegas okay? And then when mpeg2-ing it I should see some awesome video, right? Much better than DVCAM, correct? Is this used for dvd's

thanx!@

SonyEPM wrote on 10/2/2002, 8:45 AM

I know Timothy Duncan (who posts regularly at the Vegas forum at creativecow.net) uses the DigisuiteLE/Vegas combination on a regular basis. There are probably others among the silent majority, but Tim knows his stuff, does great work, and can probably offer up some pre-purchase advice.