You're right, VHS won the marketing war. That's a shame, no doubt Beta was
better. As for nationals, I'm guessing by seeing it, that it was shot on
S-VHS or Hi8, with a single chip camera. More important than shooing it on
Betacam or Digital Betacam (fyi, Digital Betacam Cameras range in price from
$60k to $100k or more) it needs to be shot with three-chip cameras. I
recently had my first experience with a 3-chip DV camcorder and was pretty
impressed and they run around $2k a piece. I don't know where to start on
how nationals was edited last year. Gosh, I'm actually an authority on
something on this list ;-)
Mike Quinn
NWOR-SCCA
Producer/Director, Hart Associates Teleproductions
74GS Integra & Sony DVW700
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