Re: Preserving DV Quality: NTSC and AV-DVI

Yes, using the DV-AVI format is best to preserve the quality from your
camcorder tape.

Not only do you need about 13 GB of space for a captured one hour tape,
you'll need another 13 GB to hold the saved movie, and more space for some
working elbow room.... 30 GB free is still on the tight side.

An external drive would work... as long as you have a USB2 or firewire
connection for it... firewire is probably better but USB2 works also.

As we look back on older videos, using better computers and screens, the
lower quality is more apparent... there's no way to recover it once lost...
so keep all your originals. And when you make a high quality movie that goes
to a DVD, copy it to a digital camcorder tape too for a higher quality copy
than the DVD.
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"luddite" <levenbac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BF7D5CAF-55EB-473F-83A8-8B36D1BFE8B9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello, experts...
>
> Our family purchased a DV camcorder last year and I have been slowly
> trying
> to do more sophisticated things using MM.
>
> Since we didn't own a DVD player initially, I had recorded all video using
> the High Quality NTSC option in MM. I edited and watched movies on our
> computer and burned it to VCDs. The quality was fuzzy, but otherwise
> fine.
>
> More recent movies made in MM appear much more pixelated and blurry than
> those I made last year. I am using the same computer to record and edit
> the
> video. When the camcorder is connected directly to the television, the
> original digital video quality is excellent.
>
> I don't know what might account for the observed deterioration in quality
> of
> movies made in MM, but I need to find a way to preserve high quality
> movies
> for my family. After combing through the archives of this site, it
> appears
> that the best way to preserve high quality DV footage from a camcorder is
> to
> record and burn to DVD in DV-AVI format.
>
> If that's the case, I have a couple questions:
>
> 1) My hard drive disk space only has 7 GB left. Can I free up space to
> have 14 GB available to record (and edit) an hour of DV-AVI footage or
> should
> I buy an external drive?
>
> 2) What type of DVD burner should I get so that we view them with an
> older
> DVD player? It appears there are multiple DVD formats...
>
> 3) Is there any way to capture DV footage using the "High Quality NTSC"
> option and watch it in full screen mode on the computer without all the
> pixelation/distortion?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>


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