Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Going Digital?

I'm assuming that all your cameras are DV cameras with live 1394 feeds (not all do). How long are your runs? Firewire is limited, but at only 100Mb/s, I've had runs going 75 feet with a repeater. I don't know what your budget is, but if you're going a couple hundred feet in your runs, the price can add up with long cables and repeaters. If it's already working the way it is and all you're doing is replacing the analog Y/C cable with a 1394 one, I don't see alot of benefit to doing just that.

Rick Emery
www.rickemery.com

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From: cheskaflute <cheskaflute@yahoo.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 10:56:16 AM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Going Digital?

I think I misused the word "digital"
Because the information in the tape is digital. I meant tape less.
What they are telling me to do is kind of confusing that's why I would like some opinions and advice on this.

We shoot the church services. Here is a brief description of our setup: we have three cameras and send the video signal to a Panasonic switcher using an S- video cable. The camera director decides which camera goes live and the video is recorded in a deck on tape.

Someone is suggesting (this someone is a computer expert but does not have any experience in video) that we send the video signal from the cameras via firewire to a computer software which would allow to do the switching. He says that using the S cable is sending an analog signal to the switcher which is digital and that would eliminate that conversion so everything from the beginning will be Digital. So I quite don't understand all that. I don't know if that would improve the video quality somehow. I also have conerns with the archival process in a server.

I really appreciate your advice.

THANKS

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com, "kenton.vannatten" <kenton.vannatten@ ...> wrote:
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> Television is now broadcast in digital, cell phones are digital. DigiBeta is digital, BetaSX is digital. I had a watch in the '80's that was digital
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> I think we need more clarification on what Francy means by "digital"
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> Colored lights flashing and bleep-boop sounds?
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> > In a message dated 1/6/2010 12:48:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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> > Digital is just a fad. Just ignore it and it will go away.
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> > Don't count on it.
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> > Quinton Lee, MIS
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> > Helping People and Technology Work Together
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