[MacDV] Editing from DVD

[Thubten Kunga]

Looking back on your original post below Ken, are you saying they only 
have DVD burning capability and not DV tape recording capability? 
Because the only way to preserve the quality of any analog source would 
be to make a DV recording of it. The DVD recording will obviously be 
full of artifacts and look a lot softer than the original. The DV 
recording should preserve almost all of the original source recording 
— DV tape dropouts not withstanding. It's all pretty fragile when you 
get right down to it. : ^ )

k

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:01  PM, Ken McNamara wrote:

> I know this is not recommended - specifically, editing from an MPEG2
> file.
>
> But, has anyone tried capturing from the analog DVD player - then
> editing and outputing that material?
>
> I don't have any intention of doing this for serious work - but I keep
> getting the question from friends who want to write there analog
> material to DVD for storage.  I've always told them you can't edit the
> result (and be satisfied with the result).
>
> Thoughts?  Experience?
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