Anyone managed to export edited hdv file back to hdv camera?

[suoiruc]

Has anyone managed to export edited hdv files back to hdv camera with MediaStudio Pro 8?
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I have heard that Ulead's new MediaStudio Pro 8 editing software is currently the only reasonably prized product that can handle hdv material without intermediary codec and which can export the edited material hdv files (m2t files) in full resolution back to hdv tape (recording hdv camera).

Has anyone bought MediaStudio Pro 8 and succesfully managed to export edited hdv material back to a hdv camera , for example Sony FX1, Z1 or HC1, A1? And then when playing the hdv tape in camera, has the original, full hdv resolution been still present in the edited material, without any quality loss??

I would really appreciate if someone could confirm that this really can be done without problems. Someone already told me that he has not succeeded in performing this export operation!

According to my understanding, so far this solution would be the only way to preserve maximal quality with the edited hdv material and to archieve it on a magnetic tape that seems to be the most reliable archieving media.

Before a decision to buy MediaStudio 8 with relatively high price, I definately need to be assured that this export operation really works!!

Thanks for your comments!!!

[tyamada]

The only reason I purchased MSP8 is because of the ability to handle High Definition Video.

I have captured and output High Definition Video to my Sony HC1 camera without any problems.

It takes a while to render the video in HI Def, about 1:20 for approximately 20 min of video.

You should download the tryout version of Media Studio Pro 8 and use the High Definition Video capabilities of the program.

[Joe Linn]

That is why I bought MSP8 also and it works fine. I had been trying to do it with MSP7 + HD plugin but was running into problems. It works very smoothly with MSP8. I edit video from the Sony HC1 and record it back to the camera with no loss in quality. I have also been able to create HD video from JPEG files (for example, zooming in on a map to show location for a vacation video). I have even been able to capture broadcast HD and edit that in with my stuff and copy it back to the HC1.

Since you mention archiving HD to tape, I'm not sure whether you are talking about an HDV camcorder or DVHS. In case you are archiving to DVHS, I should mention that there is a trick to that. If you just hook the HC1 to a DVHS deck, it will look fine while you are recording, but when you play back the tape you will get garbage. The problem is that the output from the HC1 is 25Mbps. DVHS has trouble with anything much beyond 19Mbps. To get around this, when I want to archive something to DVHS, I render an M2T file at 19Mbps using MSP8 and archive that directly from PC to DVHS. That works without a hitch.

Joe

[suoiruc]

Thank you very much for your detailed help!
For archieving, I have understod that even Sony premium dv tapes are sufficently good. Please correct me, if I am wrong.
Best wishes!

[daniel]

For archieving, I have understod that even Sony premium dv tapes are sufficently good. Please correct me, if I am wrong.

This is not a correction, but a general comment.

Magnetic data decays with time. Nature of small things is to return to chaos, or minimum energy level if you prefer. This is aggravated by the fact that each inch of tape is not isolated, as if the ribbon was flat, , but kept within the magnetic field of the loops before and the loops after, which being an average, tends to even things out. Long-term storage on magnetic data is a generally bad idea.
Analog audio tapes from music studios have _high_ level of noise after 15 years.

On digital data, noise is errors, when the number is too high, the ECC code gives up and the data is lost.
Only irreversible changes are permanent. Magnetic recording is reversible.
A DVDR or pressed DVD are the best long-term solutions.

It all depends on what time frame your have in mind when saying "for archiving". Professional tape recorders, with very high coercition levels, on DVC Pro tapes, when stored in low humidity areas, at constant preferably low temperatures, can last about 15-30 years before being unreadable at places. Home users can't expect such a result.

Professionals are currently phasing out of tape recording. There is no more new equipment introduced that is tape-based.
Data storage is more and more archived on removable hard disks sometimes with an intermediate solid-state field recording.