[MacDV] Importing from DVD

[Shirley Kehr]

And if you're willing to settle for the edited video in uncompressed 
format, consider copying the finished movie to tape. (You didn't say 
how long -- in time -- the movie is.)

Shirley

On Oct 1, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> You can always digitize again from the DVD, but you will lose A LOT of 
> quality since the DVD is highly compressed MPEG-2.
>
> I'd say burn the edited version to DVD and keep the original tapes 
> around if you ever need the footage again.
>
> Or...  You could use Toast 7's new "spanning" feature and burn your 
> iMovie and iDVD projects across multiple discs.  Toast 7 will break up 
> large files/folders into chunks small enough to fit on a CD-R or 
> DVD-R, and it puts a little restore app on each disc in the set for 
> restoration of the whole archive or individual files or folders.  I 
> haven't tried this first-hand yet, but hope to soon when my company 
> gets around to getting the upgrade.  :-)
>
> - Mark
>
> Billy M wrote:
>> Hey Folks,
>> Newbie question, but I searched the old posts and found nothing to 
>> help me.
>> I have finished up 2 large (hard drive eating) iMovie/iDVD projects.  
>> The projects have been burned and I am about to delete the files.  My 
>> question:  If I wanted to reuse some of that video in a future 
>> project, would I be able to get it from the DVD or do I need to save 
>> the originals?  If I can get the video from the DVD, how do I go 
>> about doing that?  If I need to save it, what is the best way to do 
>> that.
>> Thoughts?  Comments?
>> Thanks as always,
>> -- 
>> Billy M
>> "There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand 
>> binary and those who don't."
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