What Rendering Format is Best for DVD.and how Can you analogly transfer your video to a Video Cassete with Firewire.

Bigoj wrote on 10/30/2003, 11:33 AM

I wanna know how you can analogly transfer a video project to a Video cassete, not a Digital print tape. I'm thinking maybe i can do it from the Digital camera? If I do so, do I lose Quality? + What is the best rendering format for a video? Thanks.

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Jsnkc wrote on 10/30/2003, 11:42 AM

You can either do a print to tape from the vegas timeline and make a MiniDV "Master" then record the VHS from that. Or you can run the analog outputs from your camera into the VHS deck and then do a print to tape and it should pass through the video into your VHS deck (doesn't work with all cameras).

To answer your second question, the best rendering format for video is currently Uncompressed AVI, the only problem is that the file sizes are HUGE! The better alternative is to render to AVI DV files which are still great quality, but they are compressed so that the file sizes are smaller, but still pretty big.

vonhosen wrote on 10/30/2003, 12:14 PM

You can use a device like the Canopus ADVC-100.

It is an analog /digital converter that you plug into (between) your VHS recorder & firewire on your PC.

You can use it both ways
Capture from VHS thru it to .avi on your computer
OR
.avi on your computer thru it to VHS (or a number of other devices)