OT Suggestions for uncompressed capture card

Former user wrote on 8/9/2005, 1:43 PM

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

The company I work for is wanting me to find some prices on an uncompressed capture card. We are needing to capture from Digibeta so it needs to be a digital 601 card to an uncompressed AVI.

Since I am only familiar with DV and firewire, I was hoping someone could offer some suggestions on brands or cards to look for so I can get a jumpstart on my research.

Thanks again.

Dave T2

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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/9/2005, 2:19 PM

Black Magic,
Black Magic,
Black Magic.

For Vegas and uncompressed, they are your only choice at this time, unless you want to use a different capture app and load those files into Vegas for editing, and then use the 3rd party tool to print back to tape.

farss wrote on 8/9/2005, 2:33 PM

Just the basic Decklink card from Black Magic Design (BMD) is all you need in terms of cards. You will need a fairly powerful PC with an unshared PCI-X slot. For drives I'm using a HighPoint RAID controller running RAID 0 with 7200 RPM drives. You need to allow 90GB / hour of video.
You should be aware that DigiBeta is compressed on the tape. It is transcoded on playback to SDI and what ends up on any computer is NOT a bit copy of what's on the tape unlike DV.
As far as I know BMD is your only choice, Bluefish might have something but I think they've the left bottom end of the market to BMD.
Bob.

Former user wrote on 8/10/2005, 11:06 AM

Thanks for the information. I will look at the Blackmagic cards.

Yeah, I am aware of the digibeta compression. It is our primary format, but I haven't transferred it to a computer (other than some NLEs like Quantel IQ or the Avid)

Thanks for your help and the additional information.

Dave T2