OT: Y/C through SD-connect Vs. Firewire

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 1/11/2005, 9:45 AM

I'm looking at running the video through a Y/C cable into an SD-connect, and then out to a Hard Drive. (picking up an SD-Connect will help me do this however :)

Anyway, the question is if Y/C will provide a better image than Firewire out (Camera is a DVX100) like Component will.

Dave

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farss wrote on 1/11/2005, 1:56 PM

Are you looking at recording directly from the camera's S-Video outputs instead of from tape?
Once it's recorded as DV25 to tape then playing it back out through Y/C looses rather than gains anything. Same goes for component. You've already taken the hits from compression and color sampling and then you're adding in the losses of another D->A conversion and then another A->D step.

Coming straight from the camera though I really couldn't say. Probably best to ask over at dvxuser.com. One thing to watch for is the quality of the Y/C cable, we've found there's quite a difference between the losses in different cables.

Bob.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 1/11/2005, 3:52 PM

Thanks Bob, I did mean directly from the cam, w/o recording it to a tape.

Dave