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Topic: Alternate Content Server
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Scott Norwood
Film God
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Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 11-19-2010 08:07 AM
I got to play with the Grass Valley "T2 iDDR" unit for about a day this spring. I am not intimately familiar with it, but I don't really recommend it based on what I have seen. It has some interesting features (e.g. can play two different programs simultaneously on two different outputs), but the UI is awkward and clunky, and the software seemed buggy (I crashed it twice; maybe it has improved since then). Also, it does not have an HD-SDI input, so you would have to find some other way of getting HD material into it. Although it has a built-in DVD drive, it does not seem to have the capability to rip a DVD to its internal storage device.
Personally, I have always been a bit nervous about playing material from anything other than an original tape, as I do not want to face the wrath of some director for any potential image or sound quality degradation. In the past, I have worked for festivals which made compilation tapes of shorts program (entire program on one tape), and there have been occasional issues with this. It is much easier to point to an origianl tape and demonstrate that the sound is clipped or that a dropout exists than to explain the whole process of encoding the material in a different format and attempt to demonstrate it did not introduce any artifacts or problems. This may be less of an issue in the digital age, but the thought still makes me nervous, especially when the video-makers are in attendance.
I like the idea of the DCP option, though. Is there some sort of device that will take an SDI input and create a DCP without losing quality?
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