Advice on capturing Beta to DVD

[Scriptkilla]

Hi there i'm currently a editor and do sum motion graphics however the company i work for wants to convert sum of there own shot films onto dvd

it will mainly be BETACAM i think but i would help if we could do VHS and S-VHS i have looked at the Canopus ADVC 300 and i think it could do the job ne thoughts ????

its not my money so i can really go after the best stuff so if you guys could help me i would jelp me a lot also i will probaly be needin a BETACAM deck or player right ?

can the canopus capture the BETACAM ready for outputtin to dvd or do i need another deck to play the BETACAM i'm kinda confused as i normally just deal with websites and mobile phones

any help or suggestions would be brillant thanks

ps the company i work for makes porn films lol

[kimco52]

"it will mainly be BETACAM ........ i will probaly be needin a BETACAM deck or player right ?"

DUUUH!!!!!!!!!

Just curious. How else were you intending to do it? With a VHS deck?

[guns1inger]

Don't laugh. When I was at Uni, the number of idiots that managed to jam VHS tapes into the 1 inch deck numbered greater than the fingers on one hand per term

Make something idiot proof, and the world will invent a better idiot. Have you seen Idiocracy ?

[nwo]

"it will mainly be BETACAM ........ i will probaly be needin a BETACAM deck or player right ?"

DUUUH!!!!!!!!!

Just curious. How else were you intending to do it? With a VHS deck?

He's asking if the canopus works with both VHS! and BetaCam.

YES

[Dr_Layne]

I use a Canopus ADVC110 with various formats including BetacamSP and U-matic. Works without issue.

A_L

[edDV]

Analog Betacam to DV or DVCPro format makes sense to me for preservation. I converted all my Betacam and Betacam SP tapes to DV tapes.

Best way to do this is a Y, B-Y, R-Y transfer using a Canopus ADVC 500 or 700.
For those on a budget like me, use S-Video transfer with a ADVC 100/110 or 300.

Most broadcast level Betacam decks (BVW) lack S-Video outputs. You need to use Industrial PVW decks or a Y, B-Y, R-Y to S-Video transcoder. Later model broadcast decks added S-Video outputs.

It doesn't make sense to me to archive Betacam as DVD MPeg2 (8-9Mb/sec) That is too much of a quality drop. Higher bitrate MPeg2, DV or VC-1 makes more sense for archive. It would be a mistake to deinterlace.


PS: PAL Betacam is a direct copy S-Video to the S-Video DV camcorder input. NTSC Betacam uses 7.5 IRE setup on composite, S-Video and Y. The ADVC series makes the correct conversion to DV/DVD format 16-235 levels with the "setup" switch in the 7.5 IRE position. That is why I use the ADVC 100 for dub to a DV camcorder or computer IEEE-1394 inputs.