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Choosing the right acquisition format

Choosing the right acquisition format

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Choosing the right acquisition format

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- You know, Rich, things used to be easy. You had a video tape, put it in the camera and there was maybe like, three of four different formats that you got to choose from. - Oh Rob, I'm old enough that it used to just be one format. It was the format of the tape and that was pretty much it. I started with U-Matic, and it was easy because there wasn't a lot of choices but now, you go into these menus and you need to have an engineering degree. - Especially as cameras have gotten more advanced and done higher resolutions and doing things like shooting RAW and Log, the plethora of choices has become, well, confusing at times but at the very least kind of large. There's a lot of different ways that we can shoot and a lot of different options that we have. And the thing about it, Rich, is that a lot of cameras have two ways of actually recording the signal. Internally, right, recording on an internal memory card as some sort whether it's an SD card, C-Fast card or even an SSD. You can…

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