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 or stereoscopic material, the capture fails.
- Audio monitoring is not available during capture.
- When capturing stereo tapes, only audio channels 1 through 8 are available.
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 Tape Type box, select 2x-DOUBLE.
NoteIf the Input Clip 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; the stereoscopic clip will be captured without that bias.
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 Single Clips.
To capture material recorded on stereoscopic tapes:
- Ensure that the HDCAM SR is connected to the AJA card using a dual-link.
- Set the HDCAM SR VTR to the stereoscopic setting.
- In the Input Clip menu of Flame, select the HDCAM SR VTR from the Device Name box.
- From the Tape Type box, select 2x-STEREO.
NoteIf the Input Clip 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; the stereoscopic clip will be captured without that bias.
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 Single Clips.
The stereoscopic material is captured as a single, regular stereoscopic clip, with two layers, one for each eye. See Stereoscopic Workflow.