Retro Gear Time : Betacam
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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It may be called Betacam, but it was most certainly the alpha dog when it came to broadcast quality. Keep your fingers crossed for Nick and Dan in hopes that this week's retro gear still works!
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Using the Jog Shuttle on a Betacam deck for the first time was one of the things that made you think you were finally part of the important game.
I am using a UVW1800P right now. Complete with jog and shuttle. It came on an optional remote control DSRM-10.
Replaced with a UVW-1200P, and finally, with a UVW-1400AP.
Did Dan ever get the tape out?
Legends say he's still trying
No.
@@marcse7en :(
The 640x480 resolution quoted here for Betacam SP is incorrect. Lower end UVW decks recorded about 330 horizontal TV lines, while higher end units like the PVW & BVW models could record 360 horizontal TV lines which works out to about 480 horizontal pixels. Effective Betacam SP resolution is about 440 to 480 x 480, but is displayed at 4:3 aspect ratio.
What Panasonic broadcast video camera war rival author said m2m
PAL got 625 horizontal lines, right? Does it mean that Betacam SP footage was not making use of the full PAL performance?
@@unacertamirada PAL indeed uses a 625-line system but only 576 of those lines are visible. NTSC is 525 lines but work out to be only 480 visible lines. So yes, PAL has a 20% higher resolution capability. I'm not familiar with European equipment, but according to Wikipedia they did make PAL Betacam SP machines, so they would have taken advantage of the increased resolution. However, keep in mind that is only one specification. PAL uses 50Hz and 50 fields or 25 full frames per second vs NTSC's 60Hz and 60 fields or 30 full fps. So the motion won't be quite a smooth in PAL but it's still a little better than film. Also, PAL uses a different type of color processing but I'm not really knowledgeable enough to say which is better.
Lines of resolution are different than scan lines. Pre SP versions recorded a resolution of 330 lines. The broadcast recording was 525 lines, of which 486 were visible lines. 3/4 Umatic was at 280 lines of resolution in the same era. But they all recorded the same raster.
awesome thanks guys.
Did the analog Betacam platform us AFM audio? I’m assuming that betacam digital had digital audio.
How many times could you copy a Betacam recording before you started to loose picture quality? For example, a second generation VHS copy clearly already had breakdown in the picture.
Depends on the configuration, the decks allowed for both composite and component connections and using the component connections direct dubs could be very difficult to tell one generation from another until the 6th or 7th pass
@@MaxFederman Wow thank you. I've been wondering that for years.
Did you record this before 16:9 was in vogue?
It is weird that despite such an effort, professional environment you still have such an low view count...
Haha! Loads tape into the camera... The camera eats the tape.
It was hungry after all those years!
Do these players play Betamax cassettes?
No. The only thing that's common between Betamax and Betacam is the cassette shell. The formats are different.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Almost the only common thing. The linear audio tracks were also in the same place.
If you stuck a betamax tape in, you would hear one audio channel with the audio at high speed. I think the machines were designed to kick a betamax tape out.
I once wondered how long a 90 minute big cassette would play in a betamax. If I remember right, I came up with 24 hours of recording at Beta III.
アワーメーターが本当にメーターなのが90年代らしい。
でも、テープのデザインが日本のベーカムと違いますね。
hi i have about 40 decks yes 40 decks i have been buying them up all over the uk and they all work as well the price of decks used is very high
on ebay because i have had alot i pick them up from free to 100 each uk studio's were going to bin them i saved the deck
WOW they make super audio masting decks i never think betacam deck sound so good hard grease is the killer on the deck very likely tour cam has this
why it was not playing tape right
What about the worn heads?
hi got alot of betacam sp decks i fill sorry for them as they are not loved one bit so i buy them to fix up
i do have about 50 betacam sp digi decks all working there's no low cost decks in the uk
when i was on here with video i used to get people emailing me to find a home for the decks word got around very fast
there was a pallet of digi betacam on ebay last year i wonder who had them there's no need to skip them yet
i was told bbc stop taking tapes in 2012 for a ex bbc audio worker he's 80 about now