Recommended preservation quality SD capture card

Hello,
I'm wanting to migrate 3/4", BetaSP, and DigiBeta sources to a "preservation" quality codec/file. Ideally, I would like 4:4:4, 10-bit, YUV. Of these 3 specs I think the most important is the compression. The Kona 3 looks good, but doesn't do analog capture. The Kona LSe looks more suitable but appears not to be 4:4:4. Blackmagic doesn't appear to have anything suitable. The Kona 3 with the Kona Io may be suitable, but frankly I don't know. Recommendations? Suggestions?

You can only capture 4:4:4 if you capture as HD. The Kona 3 will upconvert the footage to that format and capture it "pillar boxed"...with black on both sides to preserve the aspect ratio (since HD is 16:9). But then you have those black lines. Oh, and you'd need to capture from an SDI deck, which is easy from a betaSP point of view as you can just rent a digibeta deck. But SDI don't come on 3/4".
From there you can crop the black lines and save as an animation codec and scale it back down. I don't know...never done this, so just throwing out concepts.
The Kona does 4:4:4 RGB...and even 2K. But, if you need YUV...
Shane

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x

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Greetings,
What would be recommendations for good capture cards and break out boxes?
I've looked at the AJA KONA 3 - I've also looked at the Blackmagic - any recommendations? Also does anyone have a preference with a broadcast monitor that they use. I'm in the stages of revamping my workflow.

In order to give you the best recommendation, we need to know what you do. What workflows are you employing, what kind of footage are you working with, what kinds of things do you need to do, and what is your budget. There are SO MANY options, that cover a wide variety of things. I don't want to do what a lot of people do and say "Kona 3...period. It does everything." Because it isn't true, it doesn't do everything. Plus it might be overkill for your needs. THe Kona 3 works with 2K, and can upconvert, but it is digital in only, have analog sources you are outta luck, unless you shell out more money for converters. And it doesn't have HDMI out. The LHi has HDMI I/O, and analog IO, and upconverts. But wait, you want this to work on a laptop too! OK, Matrox MXO2 line, AJA IO Express...
Like looking at cars...you don't want people to say "Get the BMW 7 Series...it's the best car built" when you a) can't afford that and b) don't need everything it does. You might just need to drive around town. Or, you might have to drive 7 people (you and your 5 kids), which you can't do in a BMW 7 series. Or you might need to haul gear. OK, analogy over.
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Do capture cards result in higher quality SD?

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Will capture cards allow me to capture much higher quality SD from my miniDV videocamera? If so, is there much of a quality difference and will that quality be lost once I render out from FCP? Can anyone suggest a good capture card that will also work with HDV? Thanks in advance.
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DV cams compress 5:1 and 4:1:1 color space in the cam. In 4:1:1 chroma subsampling, the horizontal color resolution is quartered. The bandwidth is halved compared to no chroma subsampling.
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Capture card necessary or recommended?

I've read conflicting advice about capture cards and HDV. One reviewer said he imported HDV footage into FCP 5 using Firwire from camera to Mac, and it was as easy to capture and edit as DV footage. Others say that it's much better to go through a capture card.
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Hello.
If you want to archive your footage as HDV, then you can capture as HDV... are you using a camera as a deck?
The issue you may find if you start editing in HDV is the lack of grunt in your G5... (what exactly is 1.8DP? do you mean 1.8Ghz?)
The reason why people use the capture card route is because people have cottoned on to the fact that HDV can be captured as DVCPROHD which is a superior format, but much more demanding on your system.
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Been capturing video via firewire through a VX2000. Using it as a A/D converter.
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Steve

OK Steve, first off no one is making PCI capture cards anymore...an there is no HD card made for PCI at all. PCI-X and PCIe only. Second, that computer cannot handle HD captured via a capture card. HDV, DVCPRO HD...yes (pushing it). XDCAM...maybe (pushing it). Uncompressed HD? Heck no.
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Then you need an HD monitor...which isn't cheap. And again, the RAID array...
But...all this is getting complicated. What format of HD are you intending to work with in the near future? HDV, or HDCAM? DVCPRO HD? XDCAM? Uncompressed HD? This determines everything.
Yes, video is expensive. HD even more so. DV is cheap...HDV CAN be cheap, but get expensive if you want to do it properly.
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The XHA1 can be read as HDV or DV video. Unfortunately it sometimes isnt sure which. If your ppro project is set to DV ppro will be expecting DV. If the tape in the XHA1 is on a spot not recorded it may be trying to behave like HDV.
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Hi,
I would like to capture my imac's screen with my macbook pro. (they both have thunderbolt connections.)
I would like to record some gameplay and stream.
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And what quality would be fine recording?
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I know TONS about capture cards. More than most here. Pretty much all of them are designed to take a video signal out from your editing software (FCP, Avid, Adobe...etc) and output that to an HDTV or broadcast monitor...or tape deck. Either mounted in the computer (MacPro Towers...the old silver cheese graters) or connected via Thunderbolt. They don't take a feed from your desktop or games...they only work with editing software...take what you are looking at in the VIEWER and PROGRAM monitor and feed that to external monitoring...via HDMI or SDI or Component cables. They also take SDI, HDMI and Component signals from cameras or decks and capture that in the editing software
What you want to do is take the monitor signal....computer display signal...and send that to another computer so you can capture it. You need something that captures the DVI or Thunderbolt output into editing software. The issue is....there isn't a card that does that. First off, the capture cards are designed to bring in broadcast type signals...not computer ones. So frame sizes of 1920x1080 or 1280x720. Computer signals are like 1600x1200 or other odd frame sizes. No capture card captures that into editing software...as editing software captures only broadcast signals. Yes, there are a few that will work with computer frame sizes (Adobe Premiere)...but only if the files already exist. They won't capture those frame sizes via a capture card.
There is a SCAN CONVERTER type card...Matrox makes one. But what it does is convert your computer display to a broadcast signal. So it'll take a region of interest...a part of the computer display...and using broadcast frame sizes, output a signal to HDMI or SDI for capture by a deck or playback to a monitor....or streaming out of a web streaming device.
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/convert_dvi_plus/
I guess you would then need TWO devices...the scan converter to convert the desktop signal to a broadcast one...and then a capture card on the other computer to capture that into your editing software. Decklink.com has a lot of inexpensive capture cards for this. I suggest looking at the Ultrastudio Mini Recorder for this:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/ultrastudiothunderbolt
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Capture Card/Deck Link

Hi All,
Currently I am setting up my Post Production outfit. As of now, I am using and Old G5 with Dual 2.7 GHZ PowerPC processor, with 3GB memory(although when i have a budget I plan to buy the new Mac Pro). Anyway as I was saying before till now, I use firewire to capture my footages, thus i lose quality(true or false?), anyway I want to buy a deck link or any capture card, or whatever capture device to maintain the quality of my footages. Thus what would you guys recommend? and what tape deck would you guys recommend?
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I use firewire to capture my footages, thus i lose quality(true or false?)
FALSE. Firewire transfers are data transfers. Zero quality loss.
anyway I want to buy a deck link or any capture card, or whatever capture device to maintain the quality of my footages
Unneeded if you are capturing via firewire. But very necessary if you are outputting to any non-firewire formats, or if you want to color correct on an HD monitor (or uncompressed SD).
Thus what would you guys recommend?
Two options for capturing:
www.aja.com Kona series. Kona 3 and Kona LH...different capabilities. You have to look at what they both offer and determine for yourself it if is something you need.
www.decklink.com - Decklink series. Again, good cards. Cheaper than AJA, because they lack many hardware components. But still are very capable for many many tasks.
I have used and like both. What you get depends on what you need.
For output only, if you capture via firewire, then you can add the Matrox MXO. I have a review of it on the Creative Cow:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/MXO.php
and what tape deck would you guys recommend?
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