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- From: billb@abekas.com ( Bill Batty)
- Subject: Re: TBC use
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.192457.28896@abekas.com>
- Organization: Abekas Video Systems Inc., Redwood City, California.
- References: <1hs96kINN227@crcnis1.unl.edu> <C03p4t.Dyw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <4672@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:24:57 GMT
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- brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
-
- >In article <C03p4t.Dyw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> duvall@eagle.sangamon.edu (Mike Duvall) writes:
- ><I have run a production company full time for seven years and part time
- ><for the last seven years. I have seen a lot of changes and have some
- ><good hints for you. FIRST be careful using the term broadcast quality.
- ><It is generally accept that SVHS cannot be used to edit for commercials.
- ><I have seem some people shoot commercials on SVHS and then edit to
- ><another format. Some engineers do not consider 3/4" broadcast quality.
- ><The FCC has rules but as long as the picture quality is very good you
- ><usually don't have problems. Lighting is very important!!! Toasters are
- ><also not broadcast quality or some might say full-broadcast quality but
- ><many people still use them.
-
- >Sorry, but I believe that 3/4" Umatic is broadcast quality. My opinion.
-
- >But, the Video Toaster is definately broadcast quality. It meets ALL of the
- >FCC NTSC specifications. Hell, it is even being used for the new Sci-Fi program
- >Babylon 5. Damn, that video sure beats alot of other stuff that I have seen
- >produced.
- >--
-
- Sorry, Newtek has been trying to very forcefully assert that very point
- for the past couple of NAB's now, and I'm still not convinced. At NAB '91, they
- had a demo set up trying to prove that the Toaster was indeed 'broadcast quality'
- (damnably annoying term - no solid definition), and all they proved to me and a
- set of my peers was that they met FCC RS-170A specifications, which covers sync
- and picture definitions, but has nothing to do with picture quality, noise content,
- or any other criteria which could be applied to broadcast quality.
- I'm not trying to steal Newtek's thunder here - the toaster is a marvellous
- piece of hardware, but it is not, nor will it ever be, a full 'broadcast quality'
- system (in my informed, but biased opinion). For top level work, it's great for doing
- rough work (this is how this could look if we did this effect, etc.), and the
- rendering stuff is kinda amazing (that piece of it does get my respect), but it's
- going to lose to hardware built by Abekas, Grass Valley, Ampex, Sony (etc.).
-
-
- P.S. - Yeah, the Babylon 5 stuff does look impressive as hell.
- --
- Bill Batty
- Abekas Video Systems Inc. NET: abekas!billb@pyramid.com
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