Re: How does WMF compare with .avi files?

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and if you use MM to capture you can choose dv-avi, wmv is just the default
setting.

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"PapaJohn (MVP)" <PapaJohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Your capture equipment and the profile you choose will determine if your
> quality will be equal to or lower than your source material.
>
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> "Les Bowker" <LesBowker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> About 5 years ago, when I was first into video editing, my captured files
>> were all .avi files (from s-video source). After editing in something
>> like
>> Adobe Premier, I still had an avi file which I then wrote to S-VHS tape.
>> All
>> pretty good quality - roughly 7:1 compression occured in the capture
>> process .
>>
>> Trying a newer system with MM, I see the captured files are WMF files.
>> Is
>> the quality of these likely to be as good as the 7:1 compressed avi files
>> I
>> was getting?
>>
>> Also, now, I'll be writing my output files to DVD. Is there much further
>> quality loss as (I assume) the WMF files go through some other data
>> compression algorithms to produce whatever DVDs need to handle?
>>
>> Basically, will my edited DVD be roughly
>> -"almost as good" as my S-VHS source,
>> - "not S-video quality but still better than a VHS original"
>> - "poorer than a VHS original"?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Les
>
>


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