HDCAM SR Double-Speed Tape Capture
Important: With Flame Family 2023, VTR capture and VTR output enter maintenance mode: they are no longer qualified or tested by Autodesk.
Using an HDCAM SR, you can capture material from specially formatted double-speed and stereoscopic tapes.
Double-speed tapes allows you to capture material twice as fast. Stereoscopic tapes essentially stores in an interlaced timing two progressive clips; a 60i (50i) “clip” contains two 30p(25p) clips.
This feature does have the following limitations:
- To use this feature, you must use specially formatted tapes. If you insert a regular tape in the HDCAM SR and try to capture it as double-speed, the capture fails.
- Audio monitoring is not available during capture.
To capture material recorded at double-speed:
Ensure that the HDCAM SR is connected to the AJA card using a dual-link.
Set the HDCAM SR VTR to DBL 422.
From the Device Name box, select the HDCAM SR VTR.
From the Input Type box, select 2x-DOUBLE.
Note: If the player displays the clip with some colour bias, it is because the player falsely interprets the 4:2:2 signal from the VTR as a 4:4:4 signal. This does not impact the capture. To remove this bias, go to the Engineering menu and set the Input Connection box to Serial 1 4:2:2.Capture the clip. See Capturing Media with a VTR.