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resonator
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Info & Offer: Does anybody still need any LD captured?
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22-May-2011, 5:41 AM

Moth3r said:

Anyway, why "10-bit TBC"? Does it matter how many "bits" a Time Base Corrector uses? (A 10-bit ADC would make more sense, but surely that's built-in to the Intensity Shuttle?)
 


The Intesity can capture in 10bit, although it's apparently pretty pointless with analog SD sources, the latitude isn't there anyway. I do it anyway. Best practice would be to make sure that you set up the gear so that highlights aren't blown out and blacks aren't crushed and worry about CC later. The quality is amazing though. The old pinnacle card I used to have was noticably worse.

I'm no expert in how a TCB actually works (other than it does correct the time base of the signal), but it says 10 bit right there on the device. This is a refurbished thing I got from a gear sale of a video rental company. Nobody uses analog anymore I guess. I bought it to use it with VHS and Hi8 tapes, actually I was told to rather NOT use it with LDs. I still have to try it with the X9, but with my own CLD2950 it's actually pretty useless. I guess it has to do with the mastering of the LDs too, because if the timebase is flawless in the first place it doesn't degrade over time as it does on tapes.

Where could I get these Japanese pre-THX discs?