Beta or UHS? Get the facts in 1976

[ARC Tech-109]

I will look deeper into this. On my end I'm using all CRT's on the analog side and Dell S-2409 LCD @ 1920x1080-75Hz refresh. Now that you mention it the vertical detail does look like its missing one field on the final.

Going to basically start over from scratch with default settings and see how that works out.

Thanks for the insight.

brett

[ARC Tech-109]

Okay so the moment everyone (almost no one) has been waiting for; Old-school U-Matic video captures from the early 1990's. Yes I have finally got everything captured and uploaded to YouTube in its native low-def 4:3 glory. Everything is direct from my old U-Matic tapes that were recorded using a JVC CR-4900U portable and captured on the Sony DXC-M3A when it had good tubes, only the night scenes were shot using a DXC-3000 and they look ghastly.

The signal chain starts with my VO-2860A feeding a NOVA 800 full frame TBC and this was run into my Sony DVW-A500 DigiBeta and chop & paste edited running the decks as a master & slave pair with all the signalling SDI then captured using a NewTek Tricaster Broadcast TC-550 which uses a mild hardware mpeg-2 then uploaded to YouTube and watered down even more. No the end video is not 4K or even 1080P but rather a testament to the resiliency of the U-Matic format. This was state-of-the-art before DVD's and I'm sure the critics will have plenty to say, don't expect an apology from me.

The issues I was having earlier were the result of multiple codecs and a timing issue with my one TBC that wasn't apparent as I use all CRT's. A complete recapture and direct upload in the mpeg-2 format eliminated all of this and for a 30-something year old video it doesn't look terrible.

Anyway check it out tell me what you think, flames will be ignored... or laughed at.

https://youtu.be/2HlJLsBXHxQ

[redk9258]

Looks good to me.

[ARC Tech-109]

So how this all came about is I got a set of new satacon tubes for the M3A thanks to a friend at a local station and spent an evening setting everything up as best I could with the what I had, Hitachi V-089 vectorscope, V-099 waveform monitor and Sony multi standard monitor with the intent of getting some really good video to put on the Mpls cable access channel-35... that was the intent anyway. I ended up setting the green ped at 0 ire with the red & blue at 7.5 and didn't do a diff check or go over my work, all looked good on the scopes and I went with that. Next day in the car I do a quick auto black balance and everything does what it should and balanced against the green that it assumed was at 7.5 and set the levels accordingly, I didn't know this at the moment and assumed all was well until I did the playback that evening and saw my error and ended up chucking all 6 tapes into a drawer hoping they'd disappear forever... I was pi-- well you get the picture of why everything has a slight green cast.

The night shots were sometime later when I tried out a DXC-3000. I wanted to see what the night sensitivity was like, it was alright but the camera was too sparkly in normal light and edgy with proper lighting so I went back over the M3A and got it right but it ended up on the back burner in favor of a DXC-325/CA-325 package with a deep educational discount of $3500.

I was originally going for an urban documentary using the angles for a more in the moment feel, actually it worked well with the fast clips and motion thirty-some years later.

[old_tv_nut]

[ARC Tech-109]

I might have a few more tapes shot on the M3A using the CR-4900U but the pennies were put away for a betacam and that ended up being an AMPEX branded BVW-35, if I can find them I will put something together.