[MacDV] Output to miniDV tape

Ron gMedia.DV at verizon.net
Wed Oct 1 08:24:05 PDT 2003


If you have captured and edited the video in DV format-not transcoding to
any other codec, when you play it out to tape, it will still be DV-as good
as the original.
> 
> I have a five minute video that has been edited in FCE. I want to send
> that video to someone else in maximum quality, uncompressed form (or as
> uncompressed as it gets in DV). The next person will be using the
> uncompressed video to create a Quicktime movie. I can't create the
> Quicktime movie myself, because I don't know exactly how much room will
> be available for it on the finished audio CD.
> 
> The manuals tell me to just play the video in the timeline and record
> the output using the VCR side of my camcorder. But the manual doesn't
> tell me anything about the specs of the resulting video on the tape.
> Will this be full quality DV that will provide the maximum possible
> quality to the next person making the Quicktime movie?



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