[MacDV] Re 8mm to DV

[Steven Rogers]

On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 09:58 AM, animal wrote:

> 2) take the VHS tape and use something like a Canopus 1000 to make my 
> own .mov  Is the quality going to be significantly less than:

Yes - the quality using this method would be severely compromised.

On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 10:45 PM, Gerhard wrote:

> If they can make the DV file for you why not make it easier for 
> yourself.  The VHS tape is of lower quality but the 8 mm film is even 
> lower quality so if they can only do the VHS tape I would not worry 
> about it.

This is absolutely not true, unless the film was shot very poorly.  8mm 
film has the capacity to be noticeably better than VHS, particularly 
better than re-digitized VHS.

SR