Does Print-To-Tape Re-Encode?

Dubinvero wrote on 2/6/2005, 7:10 AM

Posted: Feb 05, 2005 21:42

I recently had my Super 8 film home movies professionally transferred to mini-DV. I would like to edit these mini-DV's and output back to tape to create an edited mini-DV master. Can Vegas Movie Studio do this without a re-encode?. If no, can Vegas 5 output without re-encode?

Derek

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ScottW wrote on 2/6/2005, 7:39 AM

Any time you apply an effect, any type of effect, it will be necessary to re-encode. No effects, no re-encoding. In practice, you wo't be able to notice a difference between material thats been re-encoded vs. material that hasn't (Kelly - Chienworks, did some tests some time back and even after something like 99 generations, ther ewas very little generation loss).

gogiants wrote on 2/7/2005, 4:27 PM

Maybe the core of the original question was would there be a format change when you go from your mini-DV master to editor then back to mini-DV with print to tape. The answer to that is no, there is not a format change. Just make sure you stick to the "DV AVI" templates throughout the process, namely during capture, editing and rendering.

As ScottW points out, for effects you will have some rendering that is done. But the rendering of effects is a different thing from re-encoding. All of the effects will be done using a DV-AVI source and a DV-AVI output, so you shouldn't see a loss of quality. In any case, you certainly won't lose quality like you might see when going from, for example, DV-AVI to mpeg then back to DV-AVI; which is probably the heart of your original question.

At least that's how I understand it...

Dubinvero wrote on 2/7/2005, 8:04 PM

Thanks for the feedback.

Derek