CompuServe Messages

John – Just to play the devil's advocate (a roll I sometimes enjoy <G>), it seems to me that once you get it on the Abekas the internal encoder converts it to YUV which can then go to Beta SP or D1. The other point is that before R3 there was no color checking and many of us were outputing our TGA's to everything from half-inch SVHS, to BetaSP, to CRV, to 1" with the appropriate visual and WFM/VS checking with apparently good result. Now that R3 does color checking why not just write the files out to an Exabyte and go for it? Personally, if this is do-able, aside from the savings on the ASDG driver which is really no big deal, I like the idea of having my files in TGA format so that I can do my tests to NTSC and then send them out to the Abekas. I have no way of knowing at this point what the effect of the conversion process is going to be before it goes out to the Abekas, ie: no way to video test and see the NTSC result. Am I supposed to believe that the Targa images are going to look better after being processed? Or just that going digital all the way is going to look better than the best I can currently do with Beta SP? -JE