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Digital Betacam Player with Firewire
i-Link outputs

Plays back Betacam, Betacam SP and Betacam SX, DigiBeta and MPEG-2 IMX formats. It features a jog shuttle dial to enable easy searching, and handles both S and L-size cassettes. Has SDI and firewire outputs for capturing. Perfect for digitizing to Quicktime or to Final Cut Pro and Avid.
Capturing
Capturing video is not as simple as installing a capture card, plugging a VCR into it, and hitting the "go" button in the software that came in the box. Even something as simple as driving a car took a little bit of education.

An effective video capture requires the following forethoughts and decisions:

(1) What capture card?

(2) What capture software?

(3) What is the source? And what capture resolution?

(4) MPEG or AVI? To edit or not to edit?

(5) If MPEG, what bitrate?

Each of these factors must be understood and considered. Your capture hardware/software and capture settings/format must reflect BOTH the source video and end-goal of the video project.