Cleaning video from Digital Beta

[Vlcek]

I have to edit and author some data from digital betacam format and I heard some info, that video has to be cleaned in some way before editing comes in place. Any idea what does it mean?

Thanx!

[smok3]

cleaned? :D

[Vlcek]

Yep :-)

Dunno what does it mean, I tought that DigiBeta is digital medium, may be cleaning is related to older analog betacam????

Anyone?

[hendrix]

if the picture looks good...then there's really no need for additional retouching - trust your eyes. i've authored many DVDs from MiniDV and DVCAM sources without the need of additional retouching or cleaning and DigiBeta is far superior to MiniDV

[theReal]

:D hehehe :D - ...sorry for laughing, but DigiBeta is the cream of the crop in professional broadcast video. Of course if the source was VHS and then it was copied to DigiBeta you need to clean (=filter, as I understand it), but DigiBeta per se is almost uncompressed and the only cameras that record to DigiBeta are the very best 2/3" 3CCD models - videos from these cams can be blown up to 35mm film and most people won't notice a difference to a high quality blow-up from Super16 film...

Of course if you want to make a DVD from a DigiBeta source you may have to filter quite a bit (=make the picture softer) because the source delivers too much detail for MPEG2 compression - maybe that's what you meant??