Robert A. Ober: Camera operator, editor and it tech in Houston, Texas.

Gustavo Letelier
digital conversion of SD video

Hi everyone, I want to ask if any of you have some suggestions to make the best possible upres of a Betacam SP 30 fps interlaced tape to HD 1080p. I have the chance to release an old film originally shot in Super 16. Many thanks.

Amanda Toney

Can anyone in my network help out Gustavo Letelier ?

Robert A. Ober

The best possible conversion would be something like a Teranex. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/teranex

Otherwise, you may want to learn ffmpeg. See Jan Ozer's training materials at:https://streaminglearningcenter.com

He has books and videos.

Robert

Gustavo Letelier

Thank you all for your suggestions,

Best

Gustavo

Robert A. Ober

I appreciate the connection request.

Joseph F. Alexandre
USB external drive formatted for both PC and mac? But doesn't work!!!

So an editor I'm working w/ prepared some 1080 ProRes files for a distrib. The distrib wants a USB external drive formatted for both PC and mac.... Of course, I get the drive and of course it works on neither.... But of course it works on his system....

Because he didn't format to exFAT, correct????

Robert A. Ober

Probably. Seems to be somewhat hit and miss based on what others have posted elsewhere. But some folks don't seem to have trouble with exfat. At least one of the Mac utilities to read NTFS calle Parag...

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Joseph F. Alexandre

thanks for info! He says he did exFAT, kind of a drag...

Rakesh Malik

There are some exFat settings that some operating systems don't support... it's a major drag. I use Media Four's mac drive utility, that's been pretty dependable, though a bit on the slow side with AFS.

Alice Chen
Suggestion for Editing Programs

Hey guys, I like to make videos on my free time and I've only really familiarized and utilized the "iMovie" program on my macbook. Any other free and easy to learn video editing programs you guys would suggest? What are some programs people use in the industry that I should start learning and looking into? Thanks in advance for any advice!

Tahail Kabata

Well she did say "Industry" so for the most part, all the production houses I have had the privilege to have worked in... I noticed the have a variety of programs... which for the most part are Adobe...

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Allan Aligula

In total disagreement with Alle Segreti regarding Adobe Premiere

Rob Nevico

Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro are both great and widely used. Of the two, FCP is definitely the more long term affordable option and, for me personally, I find it to be more user friendly. On the fli...

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Robert A. Ober

Thanks for the connect. Let me know if I can help.

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