Duping from Tape or DVD

[Charles Martin]

> From: Larry Dodge <ldodge at eznet.net>
>
> I made a 2 hour DVD and a VHS tape of some home movies for someone 
> using
> a  Panasonic desktop recorder.
>
> They now want another DVD copy but they recorded over the original DV
> tape so they only have the DVD and VHS Tape.  Which would be better to
> record from the DVD with more resolution but compression or the VHS 
> tape
> with less resolution.  I have always wondered about this.

If I understand you correctly, you are saying that you made a DVD based 
on some DV tape, and then made a VHS of the footage as well. Is that 
correct?

If so, then what you DEFINITELY want is to extract back from the DVD 
you made. It just so happens that less than a month ago a shareware 
tool came out to do EXACTLY this job (extract DV back from the 
home-burned DVD). Let me see if I can find it ...

AHA! Found it! DVDxDV is the name, it is specifically for taking the 
files off an iDVD-coded DVD and converting them back to either DV or 
other Quicktime format:

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/11026

_Chas_

Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal, 24-Jan-03 , commenting on Apple's 
growing arsenal of hardware, OS and software that is clearly superior 
to anything in the Windows world: "It's like someone forgot to send 
them the Resistance is Futile memo."