Posted by blackburst@aol.com on 12/07/05 17:20

David McCall wrote:
> I'm interested in buying a DSR-45 to use in my Betacam linear
> suite, as well as for non-linear use. From what I can tell so far,
> it seems to be a well liked deck, but I have some questions.

Got 2 of them. I'm very happy.

>
> Has anybody heard of any serious problems with this deck?

Not so far.

>
> Is it a good feeder in a linear suite, or is it a pain to cue?

Decent feeder. Cues OK with an edit controller, even a 450. Hard to cue
with front panel control, remote makes it easier. But it drops out of
pause VERY quickly.

>
> I know it isn't suitable as a recorder for linear editing, but
> I was wondering if it can do insert edits from a non-linear system ?
> (+/- a couple frames would be better than nothing)

As far as I can tell from the manual, it's full vid/aud/sync or audio
only (on tracks 3-4).

>
> David

But it's a great ingest/output deck. DV or DVCAM, all kinds of ins and
outs and all kinds of device control. Great image, etc. And in my case,
it makes a great straight record deck or B-roll source for live-to-tape.

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