What type of audio does DVCAM Record?
Audio is another of the great advantages of DVCAM. Similar to DV format DVCAM can record in either a 2 channel 16bit 48khz mode or a 4 channel 12bit 32khz mode. Remember that even in the 4 channel mode audio specs exceed that of analogue Betacam SP. DVCAM also has the advantage of Locked audio which means the video and audio data rates are matched, so no truncated bits at edit points (reduced pops and clicks). On most editing decks we also cross fade the audio as we did in analogue VTR’s so that perfect audio match frames can be achieved. And since all of our DVCAM VTR’s use Digital Jog Sound we don’t require any additional cue track and the audio quality can range all the way up to perfect analogue like digital jog sound on the DSR-2000. That makes it easy to cue and edit sound.
