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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 5/13/2008, 12:16 PM
why on earth does he need uncompressed DV25 footage, just out of curiousity?

Dave
Woodenmike wrote on 5/13/2008, 12:32 PM
his request, not mine.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 5/13/2008, 12:54 PM
when I render as "Quick Time 7 (.mov)" The default Template I receive is "Default Template (uncompressed)" I suggest that you just drop down the template box and select the top one (which should be uncompressed).

Hope that helps.

Dave
John_Cline wrote on 5/13/2008, 1:00 PM
Besides, DV25 is NOT uncompressed. It is DCT-based 4:1:1 at a nominal 5:1 compression.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 5/13/2008, 1:03 PM
I think my statement wasn't clear, I'm quite aware that DV25 is not uncompressed, what I was saying was that why would he want uncompressed footage from DV25 files. I can see how it would be misunderstood, hopefully this was clear to the original question being asked.

Dave
farss wrote on 5/13/2008, 4:44 PM
Probably the confussion comes about by people mixing up "Not further compressed" with real uncompressed.

I suspect all the Mc guy wants is regular DV, which is also called DV25, as it's 25Mb/sec. Unless he's got a really ancient Mac he can read DV25 AVIs straight out of Vegas.

Bob.
Sidecar wrote on 5/15/2008, 10:26 PM
Render using Video for Windows; Select NTSC-DV (4:3 or 16:9).

I believe that's the same file as would be mastered back to DV tape.

It comes out with an .avi suffix but might import with no problem. Or rename it .dv
GlennChan wrote on 5/16/2008, 10:56 PM
DV shows up as a quicktime format on my system.

The codec is called DV/DVCPRO- NTSC.

You might need to add a "studio RGB to computer RGB" color corrector preset to your clips to get the colors right. This will clip superwhite values, which may or may not matter to you. You can put in different values to map the superwhites into legal range, which might be helpful.

2- The much simpler route is to send DV tapes. You can kind of clone them with a 4pin to 4pin firewire cable and two cameras. The recording camera might make new timecode (on the DVX100 you can control stuff like that).
Woodenmike wrote on 5/27/2008, 5:30 PM
there obviously is a lot of confusion on the nuances of the different formats...is there a good chart somewhere that might explain the differences in plain language? i mainly render for DVD in MPEG2 with AC3 audio, so i don't get into the other formats (or understand how they get used, obviously) and so when i get a special request for a particular format these forums are lifesavers. thanks for all the great info. keep it coming1
TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/27/2008, 6:24 PM
i guess the important question is does he want DV or uncompresses? I use uncompressed for some things, normally FX. If he's going to be doing some funky work with the footage uncompressed wouldn't be a bad idea.

but I'd just get him the tapes unless the clip is short. It takes real time to capture tapes, can tape ~as long to transfer a file to your hard drive. :)