[MacDV] Re: From the DV Expo this week in Los Angeles

[Mark M. Florida]

On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 09:37  PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> Can you vary the MPEG-2 encoding rate for various qualities and 
> lengths? Or is it one rate fits whatever?

I think the ADS info page says it supports 4Mbit, 6Mbit, or 8Mbit... so 
there is *some* level of adjustment possible.

- Mark

>
> Kunga
>
> On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 05:59  PM, sb wrote:
>
>> As I said, the software that comes with it is very iDVD-like.
>> You play out your video either from a timeline thru a camcorder's 
>> analog
>> outputs, or record onto tape and playback thru the camcorder's analog
>> outputs. Then you use the saved MPEG2 clip in either their software 
>> or iDVD
>> or DVD Studio Pro.
>>
>> The box's purpose is to encode into MPEG2 in realtime, not to edit DV
>> material. The software is for laying out a DVD, just like iDVD does.
>>
>> There's a long thread on XLR8YourMac.com that you can read for more 
>> info.
>>
>> It's under the feedback section.
>>
>> sb
>
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