Thursday, August 4, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: U-matic to digital transfers, NYC area

 


First thing to do is to assess the tapes. What is a master footage, submaster or mixmaster, edit master or dub?  On 3/4", quality can vary greatly between these. If you have a 1 inch submaster or edit master, you'll want to use those.  Harder to get transferred but better fidelity and less dropout. 

Using umatic, I've gotten best results by passing a component broadcast BVU machine through a digibeta recorder, into the avid.  The digibeta  adds color correction, timebase correction and some dropout compensation (a biggie).  Seems to sharpen it slightly too. 

Maybe a teranex-style converter connected to directly to a quality 3/4" can do all of this. 

Dropouts are your biggest enemy.  The 1" will have less of this, and a sharper image, but still is a composite recording. 

Whatcha plan on doin w/ this stuff?

RT
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On Aug 4, 2016, at 6:35 AM, eatapc@mac.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

By the way, my friend informs me that he also has "some open reels labelled Sony VK-1." Not sure what that is.

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