[X4U] Re: Ambitious DVD Project.

[Nick Scalise]

On Friday, May 20, 2005, at 07:06AM, Andre Balogh <invicta at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>
>On May 19, 2005, at 5:22 PM, x4u- 
>request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
>> On May 19, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Nick Scalise wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My recommendation is not to go to DVD.
>>>
>>> My recommedation is to have them record to and to send a MiniDV tape.
>>> So that consumers of their service can actually use what they  
>>> produce.
>>>
>>
>> My assumption was that most places digitized to DV. What I would think
>> the original poster would want is a direct copy of the originally
>> digitized data. Any encoding/transcoding done after the initial
>> digitization is going to decrease the quality of the video. Either
>> splitting the DV across several "data" DVD's or copying directly to an
>> external hard drive supplied by the customer would work.
>>
>> If you have the Telecine house encode the DV to mpeg2 to burn to a
>> video DVD, you not only lose quality, you lose the ability to edit the
>> video easily. I think that's basically what Nick (and i) am trying to
>> say.
>>
>> Since the original poster wants to edit video and create DVD's using
>> iLife 05, getting the video in DV would be the optimal solution. If
>> they receive the video in any other format, it will have to be
>> converted to DV before editing, then converted again for the DVD. Both
>> steps will be lossy.
>>
>> -Mike
>
>Nick and Mike as-well as all others who reacted and advised, thank  
>you very much.
>I didn't know that I would open a snake-pit ! My knowledge of digital  
>subjects is extremely limited so I have to restudy the info sent to  
>me and than decide what to do.
>
>One question though. If I would give my external firewire HD to the  
>transferring party they would have to have a Mac to record from,  
>isn't it ?

No snake-pit, just lively discussion.

Just make sure that the hard drive you give them has no files on it, and then if they are using PC's, they can format it to FAT32 and you will be able to mount it and read from it fine.

Just to be safe, ask them the same question.

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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at mac.com