I love learning new things about these decks. Just when you think you've got it dialed in there's new info like this that opens up a whole new set of menu items to tweak. It is very interesting how these tweaks compare to the Teranex Mini.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Spano" <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> But you can tweak stuff in the SR in both downconvert and upconvert. And IMHO it's more tweakable than the Mini.
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> Items 930-961 in the SRW-5500 menu give tons of tweakable controls for the process. And some of them have very interesting and drastic improvements to the conversions. For example, the V-FILTER setting (944) improves the downconvert dramatically. They built a lot into it, and the machine defaults are tame compared to the results you can get with a little tweaking.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
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> > Interesting. But you have no options to tweak things in the SR deck (we have two so I'm not picking sides)
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> > Oliver Peters did a review a few years back where he tested a lot of different options for uprez and landed on the side of the Teranex.
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Spano" <cutandcover@> wrote:
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> > > Throwing an opinion into the ring...
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> > > I have both a Teranex Mini and a SRW-5500 with Digi playback card. I almost always use the SR upconvert because it is almost always better.
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> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@> wrote:
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> > > > Thanks John,
> > > >
> > > > But the word I'm getting from Terry C., and others, is that using a Teranex will produce the best results.
> > > > I'll be making calls tomorrow or Wednesday when I have time, since this post is late in the business day.
> > > >
> > > > I was just looking for any recommendations since the facility I normally use doesn't have a Teranex . . .
> > > > and the two places I was able to contact today (who shall go nameless) do very little to inspire confidence.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
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> > > > B
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> > > >
> > > > Benjamin Hershleder
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> > > > On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:42 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > > > > With the right option boards the HDCam 5500 and or 5800 can play a digibeta and up convert. I don't know how the quality would compare with a Teranex full tilt or a Teranex mini.
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> > > > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@> wrote:
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> > > > > > OT:
> > > > > > Los Angeles (Burbank area preferably) Up-convert Recommendation
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> > > > > > Can anyone recommend an "indi-friendly" (which translates to "reasonable rates") facility
> > > > > > with Teranex to do an up-convert from DigiBeta to HDCAM SR (1080i/59.94)?
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> > > > > > TIA,
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> > > > > > Benjamin
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> > > > > > Benjamin Hershleder
> > > > > > http://ContactBen.com
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