Hi...
I havent been on here for a while. I am still using VS8. I capture my DV tapes thru the camcorder via firewire. When I capture the footage this way, I have been told I am just transfering the video and I am not suffering a generation loss. I then edit and burn my DVD. I have ALOT of family tapes to still edit so my question is...
If I just "transfer" the video from ALL of these family tapes the exact same way as stated above ... and do NO EDITING NOW, just burn the captured video to DVD's, so that I can edit these DVD's at a later time ... When I import this DVD I created in the previous step back to my hard for editing (whenever I may do this) ... will THIS METHOD result in a generation loss at all or will it be the same still as just transfering the video?
I thank you for your help in advance,
Dan
Generation Loss ?
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If your original capture/transfers are in DV format, then if you burn them to DVD, they have first to be converted to DVD-compliant mpeg-2. So if you then extract the video for later editing, then yes, there will be one generation loss in quality...
That is if you are talking about burning them to a video DVD, which requires mpeg-2 conversion as that is the standard DVD format.
On the other hand, if you are talking about simply transferring the DV to DVD in that same DV format i.e. using the DVD only as a data archive, then no, the video will remain in DV format and will not suffer any generational loss. However, the downside is that, as you would realise, it takes around 13 GB for one hour of DV. So in effect you would require 3 DVDs just to archive one standard mini DVD tape. Given the price of DVDs these days, this no longer need be a concern, though.
That is if you are talking about burning them to a video DVD, which requires mpeg-2 conversion as that is the standard DVD format.
On the other hand, if you are talking about simply transferring the DV to DVD in that same DV format i.e. using the DVD only as a data archive, then no, the video will remain in DV format and will not suffer any generational loss. However, the downside is that, as you would realise, it takes around 13 GB for one hour of DV. So in effect you would require 3 DVDs just to archive one standard mini DVD tape. Given the price of DVDs these days, this no longer need be a concern, though.
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