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Hi



I've recently edited a 2 hour mutli-camera show from Digi Beta. We captured
the footage via firewire, cut the programme and mastered it to DVD for
duplication. We've now been asked to online the programme for broadcast.
Presumably this should be a simple task:



* capture the footage from Digi Beta with an analogue to digital converter
* Export the current programmes as an EDL into a DigiBeta (PAL) version.
* Render anything necessary
* Import the online audio
* Output to DigiBeta with the Digital to analogue converter.



Please can someone recommend a suitable D-A converter? We were thinking of
getting an AJA Kona LH/ LHe.



Also, is there anything else we may have missed in the process / potential
pitfalls?



We usually offline on FCP 5.1.2 and give and EDL to a post-production
facility but figure doing it ourselves will be a cheaper option.



Current kit spec:



Mac OS X version 10.4.8

Processor 4 x 2.5 GHz Power PC G5

Memory 4.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM





Thanks

I specced and used an AJA based suite for 12 months using BetaSP.

When you do a media-manage and get ready to reingest the footage, AJA can take in SDI from your digibeta and capture it as DVCPRO-50 - a DV style codec at 4:2:2 that's a gnat's gentalia away from digibeta. You can't tell the difference in formats without test charts and scopes.

You could do an OMF export of the audio for sweetening, plus a final edit in DVCPRO-50 on hard disk. Take this/these to a FCP post house for broadcast output. They will dump to digibeta, doing (assuming you've done your homework) the audio magic plus legalisation.

You may not need the full IO (which does SDI and analogue). If you're mainly SDI, there's a mini version at half the price (ditto analogue).

The big pleasure is that the IO boxes work with PowerBooks so I could take the whole edit home (PowerBook, disk and AJA) and edit on my kitchen table - I could take it back to the office and work through a Grade 2 monitor.

Thanks very much. You have helped me a lot

kilamunkyz,

We bought a AJA IO box to do a similar job. We chose the IO cos I have 3 Editors and with a simple FireWire switch I can change the IO box to whichever editor needs SDI and component inputs. Also frees up PCI cards for more important things like SCSI and SATA cards for storage.

Peace

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