Hi Kimberly, The VO-9800 is a nice machine, but it's around 20 years old (had one in a editing system at UPenn). It's an analog deck, though high quality, would be best if you had a time base corrector to clean up the video stability before digitizing. A machine that age could probably use a cleaning and adjustment to be sure it is handling your UMatic tapes properly, lots of mechanical parts there and the rollers and belts may have aged and need rejuvenation or replacement. The group at Penn which had that equipment after I left was long ago disbanded, I suspect it is long gone, instruction manual too.
DVCam is much more recent - I still shoot on it in standard definition. It is digital on tape - if you are able to acquire a DVD deck which has Firewire in/out you can copy the tapes digital to digital, with just loss from conversion to MPEG-2 for the DVD. Dubs direct to DVD using analog audio/S-Video can look quite nice, I often use that to make DVDs fro my shooting masters (displaying time code) for collaborators to review and select shots. A good place to find help would be the Chicago chapter of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) - no doubt there's a member in Chicago who could help. Guys (mostly men, though a few women, especially the old heads who might remember the 9800) in the Philly chapter are very helpful and informed. You'll find the Chicago chapter chair on this list: https://www.smpte.org/local-sections/managers If you have further questions feel free to drop me a note to my media consultant side: John Kahler Media Consultant [email protected] ------------------ John Kahler Executive Director CollegeAnywhere phone/fax 267.702.3962 x 702 toll free 855.227.8732 x 702 [email protected] www.CollegeAnywhere.org *CollegeAnywhere helps faculty teach and inspire students by providing tools and resources that bring rich media content to teaching and learning* On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:00 PM, <[email protected]>wrote: > Send videolib mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/[email protected] > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of videolib digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 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I have some questions. > > Thanks > Cindy > > ______________________________________________ > Cindy Badilla-Mel?ndez, M.L.I.S > Media/Music Resources Librarian > O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, > University of St. Thomas > Mail #5004, 2115 Summit Ave, > St Paul, MN 55105 > phone (651) 962-5464<tel:%28651%29%20962-5464> > fax (651) 962-5406<tel:%28651%29%20962-5406> > > > .3103 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. > HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 12:36:47 -0500 > From: "Shotick, Kimberly" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Videolib] Umatic and dvcam > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > < > camfakzz3qkypbmoszhufaaiwu9tssgy2jt2xopqtwhob4jo...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Greetings, > > I have a ton of archival material I'd like to digitize in my library. We > received a dvcam and Umatic SP VO-9800 players that I'd like to use to > digitize those formats, but I don't even know where to begin. If anyone > has any leads on useful manuals or people, please pass them along. Thanks! > > -- > Kimberly Shotick, Librarian and MLRC Coordinator > > Ronald Williams Library > Northeastern Illinois University > 5500 North St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625 > Phone: (773) 442-4415 > > CMT Librarian Twitter <https://twitter.com/CMTLibrarian> > > CMT Research Guide <http://libguides.neiu.edu/cmt> > > www.neiu.edu > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. > HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:16:06 +0000 > From: "Schmitt, Mike" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Videolib] Umatic and dvcam > To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > If you have the exact model numbers I can probably assist. > > Let me know! > > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Shotick, Kimberly > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Videolib] Umatic and dvcam > > Greetings, > > I have a ton of archival material I'd like to digitize in my library. We > received a dvcam and Umatic SP VO-9800 players that I'd like to use to > digitize those formats, but I don't even know where to begin. If anyone > has any leads on useful manuals or people, please pass them along. 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