More more quick question about Vegas and Beta SP

musman wrote on 1/13/2004, 1:34 AM
Thanks for the help earlier, had one last question: if you're transfering from a minidv tape (printed to tape from Vegas) to a Beta SP tape, what sort of sound can you claim to have?
1- Optical
2-Mono
3- Dolby A
4- Dolby SR
or write in something like Dolbly Digital?

From the info before, Dolby A and SR don't seem right. Anyway, I'm trying to finish this damn festival application and could use the help!

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musman wrote on 1/13/2004, 1:36 AM
Oops, that supposed to read "One More quick question". Sorry if that sounded rude, dyslexia boy still slips up sometimes.
PeterWright wrote on 1/13/2004, 2:06 AM
Don't have the answer to your question, but you can change the Subject by clicking "Edit this Message"
farss wrote on 1/13/2004, 4:08 AM
1. - Definately NOT, only film has optical sound tracks
2. - Not really on SP, you have to record to two audio tracks, they could be the same though.
3. - Some SP machines have Dolby NR, not sure which variant though.
4. - Not unless you've got a way to encode to SR
You cannot put ac3 onto SP being only an analogue system

So the answer is simple, stereo!

If it's on SP that's about the only choice you've got, maybe some SP machines would do 4 channels of audio but coming from MiniDV that's not a choice.
SonyEPM wrote on 1/13/2004, 8:47 AM
With Beta sp decks you will typically be recording analog, stereo, on the linear tracks when recording from DV source devices. Some BVW series beta decks support FM audio tracks as well- the FM is much better, but make a note on the tape box because if you feed to the FM tracks only, it might appear there is no audio on the tape if the playback deck doesn't support FM.

Also: If you are feeding a beta deck from a DV camera, make sure you send the video over s-video, not composite (much cleaner).