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- Rebekah B. Patterson (rp3488@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) wrote:
- : The majority of my work is for cable :30 second spots with very little
- : video footage, but a lot of lightwave work (output via the PAR). Since
- : our output format is generally 3/4", I was wondering is the video capture
- : quality with the PAR/TBC4 combo was adequate for broadcast work.
- : Generally we run less than 10 seconds of live action in a spot that is
- : shot on 3/4" so we'd be sourcing off of that as well. In the past, all
- : the 3/4 footage was dropped in in the edit stage, but I'd like to remove
- : the edit suite time from the loop ;)
- :
- : How is the video capture quality of say the VLAB-M system compared to
- : the PAR/TBC4 system? Are either of them usable for 3/4 mastered
- : broadcast? I'd rather not have to put together a full linear suite just
- : to drop in 10 seconds of footage per spot :)
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- There will be those who will argue (aren't there always?) but with the
- newer drives, especially the Micropolis AV series, the quality of the
- video capture is excellent and should be close to many of the non-linear
- systems out there. I think that you will notice verly little loss with the
- 3/4" equipment that you use.
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- David
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