re: dv tape

sonicboom wrote on 9/17/2002, 7:39 PM
first of all, i'm sorry to keep posting various questions in this forum about dvd stuff but you guys know more about this than any other forum i've ever been apart of.
that said, i just installed my pioneer dvd burner today and made two dvd's
both came out great---
i have about 10 different projects i have previously edited and printed to tape on dv tape...i saved them for just this reason
my question -- i want to convert these to dvd's--will i lose quality (noticable) by capturing them in vegas--converting to mpeg2 --- authoring (movie factory) then burning to dvd?
whew--that was a mouth full.....
thnx
:)
sb

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salad wrote on 9/17/2002, 8:04 PM
SB,
DV capture is just a Xfer of DV data from tape storage to Hard Disk storage. If you don't drop any frames, you'll have a replica of the original rendered DV .avi file.
It's good you archived them on tape, and not as.....mpeg2 or DivX :D
sonicboom wrote on 9/17/2002, 8:43 PM
salad
i rendered the project avi., then i print to tape onto vhs tape
i also print to tape into my camcorder--sony vx-2000 and make a backup dv tape

i am capturing right now as we speak (type/read)
thnx
sb
SonyEPM wrote on 9/18/2002, 9:25 AM
If you have nothing but DV clips cut together, no fx, print that to DV tape, recapture, and encode as MPEG, you will lose nothing.

You should still get pretty good results if you rendered a more complex project to DV before encoding to MPEG-2, BUT: If you encode to MPEG from the original (unrendered) project, the quality will be somewhat better since there will be no interim DV compression step. In this case Vegas will feed uncompressed frames to the MPEG encoder. Can you tell the difference? That's for you to decide.
sonicboom wrote on 9/18/2002, 9:36 AM
sonic thnx
the dv tapes i have are filled with fx and transitions etc.
but i appreciate the tips on rendering directly to mpeg2---like johnny carson use to say--i did not know that.
:)
sb