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Does anybody have experience with quality of captured video in VisualStudio and MediaStudio Pro?
I was wondering if the quality of captured DV video would be better in MediaStudio Pro or same as in VideoStudio?
It seems to me that video is a lot better if viewed from the camera linked to a TV via a composite output than captured DV format viewed on PC or PC linked to a TV via composite output.
Is it better to capture and edit DV type 1 or DV type 2? I have a Sony miniDV camera and VisualStudio 11.5+.

Thanks for answers.

MAterial recorded to minidv tape is in dv format.
Of you "capture" via firewire to dv.avi, then in effect you are making an exact copy of the tape on your hard drive.
There is no quality loss.

Edit and save in dv.avi and you will again have no quality loss. So long as you have all yor project/output settings set to match input. As such it doesn't matter which app you use to capture with.

Whatever you do now may involve a loss of quality. Making a dvd entails encoding the file to an mpeg2, this is compressed adn will lose quality, and then there are many things that effect this quality loss, quality of encoder, settings used etc.

Watching from a pc is no way to guage quality, as it displays/sends out the signal differently to your cam/tv.

Best test is to send your edited dv.avi back to your cam and watch this on your tv, it should be identical to your original.

type 1 or 2 does't really matter for quality, as one has seperate audio and the other doesn't.

Here you go some reading

http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorial ... iFiles.htm