Print to tape question

Ace Fortune wrote on 2/9/2009, 4:35 PM

Hey everybody! I was wondering how to print to tape, because I have a lot of projects that I want to back up. Can I have step by step directions, because I've never used this feature? Also, will there be any quality loss? Because this will be my only copy of my work, because my hard drive is full, so I will have to delete it from my hard drive. Thanks for the help!

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jetdv wrote on 2/9/2009, 5:46 PM

Tools - Print Video to Tape (or HDV tape) - and then follow the screens that appear.

That's really all there is to it.

If you're printing DV to DV, there will be no loss as it's a straight transfer.

If you're changing formats, there *could* be some loss. You didn't mention if you're printing DV or HDV, or what your source files are so the quality question is hard to answer.

Ace Fortune wrote on 2/9/2009, 6:22 PM

Thanks for the help! The video clips in the timeline are .avi. I recorded the video in standard definition widescreen. Will there be any quality loss? Are there any special settings I should use when printing to tape? If you need anymore info, let me know. Again, thanks for the help!!!

Ace Fortune wrote on 2/9/2009, 6:32 PM

Oh, and I forgot to say that when I was filming the original video, it was to DV tape.

jetdv wrote on 2/10/2009, 6:23 AM

What gets recorded on tape will be exactly what's on the timeline. If you've made no changes (i.e. added effects), it will be exactly what was on the original tape!

Ace Fortune wrote on 2/14/2009, 4:44 PM

Thanks for the help! I've noticed when I go to project properties, in some of my projects, the deinterlace method is set to "blend fields" and other times it's set to "none". What should I set this to, because I'm about to print all my projects back to tape, and I want the quality to be just as good as when I recorded the video?

farss wrote on 2/14/2009, 5:34 PM

As far as I know the de-interlace method setting will make no difference for what you are doing. It only has an impact if you're scaling interlaced video or de-interlacing, you appear to be doing neither of these.

I'd add that disks are incredibly cheap these days, cost of storing video on tape and disk is comparable. Tape is more reliable in general although I've yet to loose anything that could not be easily replaced from the odd HDD failures I've had.

Bob.

Ace Fortune wrote on 2/14/2009, 8:00 PM

Thanks for the reply! After about 45 minutes of googling the print to tape tool, I found out that when it prerenders the video to print to tape, it uses the settings in project properties. So after reading that, I think I should set the deinterlace method to "none(progressive)". What does everybody think? :)

ushere wrote on 2/15/2009, 1:38 AM

rather depends on what your end format is going to be......

Ace Fortune wrote on 2/15/2009, 1:34 PM

I'm just backing up all my footage. I want the best quality, so I think I'm going to set the "deinterlace method" to "none", because I can always deinterlace it later, if need be. Am I correct? :) These will be my only copies of my footage.

John_Cline wrote on 2/15/2009, 1:56 PM

This setting does not force a deinterlace, it just tells Vegas what method to use if it does need to deinterlace for some reason. In your case, setting the deinterlace method isn't really going to matter since it doesn't need to deinterlace. I always leave mine set to "interpolate" and just never think about it.

ushere wrote on 2/16/2009, 1:15 AM

echo jc.

if it's for backup i'd ignore setting it....