[MacDV] Re: Formats...

[Jim Asherman]

On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 10:47  AM, Matthew Guemple wrote:

> Jon Blumhagen wrote:
>>>> If I render using no compression and then burn it onto
>>>> a DVD would that run ok? Without the throughput problems the computer
>>>> has?
>>> That would run , not as good.
>> Not sure I understand this. DV itself is already a compressed format  
>> (1:5)
>> done right in the camera itself.
>
> This is an AfterEffect project. No DV footage used. The "none" or  
> uncompressed version looks great, the "DV codec" compressed version  
> looked soft.
>
> The none version stuttered on my machine and I was wondering if that  
> was a function of the computer and whether that limitation would be  
> overcome by the compression applied when making a DVD.
>
>> I not sure I understand the "run not as good", though. Are you saying  
>> that
>> if the original DV-compressed shoot is rendered without a codec and  
>> then
>> burned to a DVD, it will have problems running on a standalone player?
>> jb
> So I took it to mean "yes".
>

I do not think that uncompressed Video stored on a DVD would even 
register as viable content on a standalone player.
On the other hand you probably could render your uncompressed video to 
Mpeg2
make a DVD from it and that would run fine.

Jim