[MacDV] Re: Editing from DVD

[Thubten Kunga]

Yes, I guess you just need to impress on them that they will be losing 
something by moving it to that medium. It must be a money issue right? 
DVD-R media is pretty cheap now @ 66¢ an hour vs. $2-$4 an hour for DV 
tape.

k

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:53  PM, Ken McNamara wrote:

> Thubten Kunga wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> No, I have the DV recording capability and it's my choice for
> archiving.  It's people I know who are bound and determined to archive
> onto DVD that want to do it this way.
>
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