Re: From Hard Disc to HDCAM tape? by Bryan Rawles on Apr 3, 2006 at 12:57:17 am
You may need to be more specific here. But for example if you edited an HD show in Final Cut Pro then you would need some type of video in/out card such as the Blackmagic Decklink or the Kona2. They would send an HDSDI signal with embedded audio to an HDCAM record deck. Of course if your edit is using uncompressed footage than you would need a RAID drive setup such as an XSERVE or HUGE to playback uncompressed HD footage in real time.
Re: From Hard Disc to HDCAM tape? by Bryan Rawles on Apr 3, 2006 at 3:55:57 pm
Yes, the project would have to be rendered to the uncompressed Blackmagic 4:2:2 or Apple Uncompressed 4:2:2 codec. And it would take up a lot of disk space depending on the length of your project. But more importantly is the speed at which your drives read. For uncompressed HD you will need a large RAID disk array that can sustain data rates of 250 Mb/sec.
Re: From Hard Disc to HDCAM tape? by Ramona Howard on Apr 3, 2006 at 4:12:14 pm
John,
Is this a firewire drive or what?
How is the project stored on the disk? Are they Cineon or DPX frames or a clip such as an Quicktime or AVI.
Many studios are delivering content on drives these days and this is not as difficult as you may think.
I would suggest that if you don't have the system to connect and play out to the deck (This would require an I/O board with SDI and a fairly beefy system) Then going to a post facility would give you less headaches, they deal with this daily.
Re: From Hard Disc to HDCAM tape? by john jay on Apr 3, 2006 at 4:53:13 pm
Hi Ramona,
some was grabbed in 100Mbps 422p@HL; some in HDV, all edited in EDIUS to CanopusHQ 422. So the project (45min 25P) is a Canopus HQ avi file ~ 40gig. Expanding this out to BM 422 codec is going to increase this to what 400 gig? for no gain in PQ?
Looks like youre correct - a post facility to record to a HDCAM deck probably best
