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derek l · Post by **derek l** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:59 am

is it possible to edit from my video camera(canon 630) to VS 8 to burn a disc that i can load in when i decide to make a movie ie, sort out everything that i have on quite a few DV tapes in to some sort of sane order then burn all the clips of video on to disc .Then when the time comes i can load disc and start. ???

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:22 am

Generally speaking, yes, if I understood correctly what you want to do. In reality, if you are not sure yet what you want to do, when the time comes, you may wish to edit your clips again. In order to put these on a CD now you would need to compress them. Editing again later is not going to improve the quality, rather the oposite. Uncompressed DV AVI files tend to be large and you would need an awful lot of discs to back up about 1 hours worth of it, around 19GB. I would leave them on tape until I'd know what I want.

derek l · Post by **derek l** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:53 am

Thanks , Heinz I thought it might be easy to sort out everything THEN burn to disc , but as u say a lot of discs and no better quality Cheers

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:05 pm

what is also possible but requires a DV-in in your camera, is to capture to DV format (.AVI) cut the unwanted part and re-arrange the clips in VS8 using AVI output and send that back to tape for storage.

Quality is then unharmed, you just loose the date/time code and editing will be fast since there is no compression.
Then you may erase the files on the hard disk and keep the tapes as rushes for later editing

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:14 pm

DV AVI (or more accurately, DV25), is ~13GB/hour. It requires 25Mbps of storage, hence the DV25 name. DV AVI is a compressed format, with a fixed compression ration of 5:1.

Until consumer-writeable BlueRay disks arrive, the cheapest and easiest way to archive it is to leave it on tape.

sportswizdan · Post by **sportswizdan** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:41 am

Hi Guys...

If I capture my digital tapes to AVI-UNCOMPRESSED..I know this is a big storage difference..Would I get a better quality DVD when I edit, then If I capture as I am doing now to DV AVI?

Thanks, Dan

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:46 pm

No.

The camcorder sends out DV, which would then get decompressed to take up ~65GB/hour, but the video can't contain any more detail than the DV-compressed data that originally came from the camcorder.

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:26 pm

Plus no matter what you do in any any preliminary stage, the DVD you end up with will ONLY be MPEG2 quality.