Vegas to DigiBeta?

wilka26 wrote on 10/2/2007, 12:30 PM

Hey, I shot my film on the Canon HV20 and edited it in Vegas and am now submitting it to film festivals. One such festival requires that either a 35mm print (not gonna happen) or a DigiBeta/Beta SP is available for projection. Can anyone shed some light on DigiBeta and how I may go about doing it?

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GlennChan wrote on 10/2/2007, 12:47 PM

One route would be to find a facility with a digibeta VTR/deck and an editing system. Figure out what formats that editing system will accept / what formats will actually work.

Render out your film to a file on a firewire drive, take that to their facility, and print to tape from there. You might want to make sure your audio levels are correct on the dbeta... peaks should hit around -12dBFS and it should average around -20dBFS. Tone is normally -20dBFS on the dbeta. The deck/VTR can adjust levels coming in, so you knock everything down by -8dBFS if necessary.