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The company I work for is producing a television show, its a real-estate show in south Florida

The show will be a combination of video & still

Its going to be a 1/2 hour show weekly

We have the introduction to the show being prepared right now. The format will be our introduction throughout the show with real-estate ads inserted between.

Right now we are having a company do all the video editing, we will be helping with the graphics for the show and scanning slides for the still shots.

(not even shore how I set that up, but im sure we will get the details from the video company.)

What we are looking at it setting up the ads in-house.

What would we need to do this, Should we go towards FCP or premiere?

Im guessing we will need a beta (writer/reader?) to export the video to?

Most of the video we get from the real estate offices comes in on beta tapes as well, the rest comes on Mini DV

basically what I am trying to find out is this something we can produce with premiere and after effects? or should we stick to the studio doing the work?

If we can do it in-house or at least in-house in the future (as we learn) what should we start with, any good books for getting from video to television, and what equipment would we need to buy? (we have g4/733s already)

Also, is it wise to just go with a video editing machine instead?

thanks for any input/insight!

-Mike-

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Ok.

1. If most of your source video is coming from beta tapes you will need a beta player/recorder. That's obvious. To get this video into the mac you will need a capture card. Now most Beta SP decks offer an S-VHS output so you could buy something like the Matrox RTMAC to capture your video. The matrox-RTMAC will also give you realtime editing with the video you capture and any DV video you have. The RTMAC works with Final Cut Pro and (i think )premiere. This solution is fine except that the quality of your video will not be great.

The best solution is to look at a capture card like the igniter from www.auroravideosystems.com - This will allow you to capture your vijdeo from your beta source at much higher levels of quality. All the way up to uncompressed if you have the money.

2. Final Cut Pro is a long way in front of premiere in my opinion.

3. It is something you can produce using FCP and After Effects. There isn't anything you can't do with that combination - excpet 3D worlds or characters etc

4. A Powermac 733 is fine for what you want to do. I would suggest however that if you're going to build a system that you leave it as a standalone editing and effects station.

5. Here is a system that would i classify as reasonably high-end. This system would allow you to work with 8 bit uncompressed SD video from your Beta sources.

Powermac 733
1.5 gig of Ram
3 x 36gig - 10 000rpm ULTRA 160 SCSI Hard Drives striped into an array.
ATTO UL3D SCSI card
Aurora Igniter capture Card (you will need to check the aurora website for configurations and input/output options)
Final Cut Pro
After Effects
Photoshop

Hope that helps. Any questions - Just ask.