24p Digibeta

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hanguolaohu

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Does Digibeta ever run at 24p? I have a film shot with the DVX-100 and wanted to make a master tape. Was wondering if uprezzing to HDcam would be my only option to maintain same framerate.

Thanks,
Alexander
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacam#Digital_Betacam

Sometimes the Wiki can be a great tool. :~) The easy part of that question is that Beta doesn't support it. Looks like the HDCam is the thing for you.

But you lead up to a good question I never really thought of. I'm guessing after a few Wiki page browsings, there isn't a clear way to export a pure 24p@480p video to tape?? It seems HD tape formats won't accept more then one specific resolution despite existing support for 24p. And all the SD tape formats don't seem to support 24p without adding pulldown tricks. There does seem to be a bit of a hole there. Sure you can uprez it. But that just feels wrong from a pure archiving standpoint. Oh well...
 
Yeah, I did check the wiki, but wanted some human input as I want to do this mastering process right the first time. I got this answer from a friend:

Nope...digibeta is 29.97 only.

No SD tape runs at 23.98...24p. Even your DVX...it records 29.97. The 24p is embedded in that and the redundant frames removed when you capture.

You want to maintain the FRAME RATE? There is no need really, unless you plan on making a film print. Since your footage is DV it is SD, and the best format you can master to for SD is digibeta. Outputting to HDCAM means uprezzing via a Kona 3 or Terranex (terranex is better), and that means blowing up the footage and taking a quality hit...and more $$.

Best to master to Digibeta...IMHO.
 
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