Digi Beta into FCP

Hi, I am shooting a documentary on Digi Beta. Can anyone advise on the best way to get the rushes into FCP. I have a Sony Z7 to import DV via firewire so do I need to convert Digi to DV ? If so what happens to the quality?

David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:
Jon, sorry to butt in, I don't know this deck, but doesn't this FW connection convert the DigiBeta to DV? Does the deck is show up as an external drive?
bogiesan
I own this deck but I've never used it via FireWire because I have a capture card. I had assumed it would capture as regular NTSC but further research indicates that you are correct - it does down-convert to DV.
Which means, I guess, that there is no way of doing this without a capture card.

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