Those were shot with S-VHS. They edited on the fly (live). They did
not use any bars to reference between tapes/shots. It was sort of a
last minute deal. The gentleman who holds the video rights to
Nationals was trying to recoup what he could for his outlay. I don't
know if he achieved that. The pix were so-so. It was too bad they
didn't at least shoot the raw footage on Betacam.
FWIW, a Digital Beta deck with record and playback goes for 60k. I
suspect a camera is WAY up there. Speedvision has two D-Betas for the
primary tapes (S-VHS in tandem for back-up) and six D-Betas in the
Odetics crate for the spots (spots is money). The Odetics is like a
giant juke box that has a robotic handler to move the spots in and out
of the D-Betas (or whatever format a station/network wants to run).
Matt Murray
mailto:mattm@optonline.net
mailto:mdmurray@gwns.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Quinn <mquinn@hartinc.com>
To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: VHS vs. Beta
>You're right, VHS won the marketing war. That's a shame, no doubt
Beta was
>better. As for nationals, I'm guessing by seeing it, that it was
shot on
>S-VHS or Hi8, with a single chip camera. More important than shooing
it on
>Betacam or Digital Betacam (fyi, Digital Betacam Cameras range in
price from
>$60k to $100k or more) it needs to be shot with three-chip cameras
>Mike Quinn
>NWOR-SCCA
>Producer/Director, Hart Associates Teleproductions
>74GS Integra & Sony DVW700
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