you can control a beta deck..from dmx in the next version...Originally Posted by Portal
depends what you mean by 'beta quality'?
It depends on how you compress your footage, and how fast your discs are.
Back in 1995 - i did broadcast jobs with 2MB/s footage - rendering onto d5 - ( but my footage had been shot on 16mm or 35mm film... )
The 'quality' of your movies depends on the quality of your source material, how many times you have recompressed it, how you altered it during your production workflow.
The truth of all the 'quality' issues, is that if your source material looks good and is shot or rendered well then the output will look good.
Beta SP can look terrible, i mean really awful - worse than any current DV camera - if the exposure is wrong - or the footage not very good.
Once you start looking closely at Beta SP footage -it has lots of problems too.
I would never master anything onto Beta SP.
I would always master onto DigiBeta.
( but - i did a graphics job for BBC2 - and mastered onto Digibeta- and the DV dub i did looked better - it was slightly softer - warmer and the colours were better )
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You can use uncompressed movies with catalyst but you need a fast hard disc array. This is no different to any other non-linear system.
The more 'quality' ( which is equated with compression ) you want - the faster discs you need-
The larger the RAID array you need.
Standard ATA drives - just dont hack it.
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If I wanted good quality - without using a raid array-
I would use DV movies, and make sure they had been recompressed as few times as possible. I would recreate the final output from the original, and re-source all graphics.
I wouldnt want 3rd generation artbeats movies anywhere near me.
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