[MacDV] Re: Digital Video Quality

[Charles Pearson]

I took the advice and sent a portion of a soccer game back to DV tape 
from iMovie. The image was just a good as the original. Thanks for the 
help there. As Erica pointed out the more the motion, the poorer 
quality the DVD image. I guess that I was expecting near commercial DVD 
quality from my own iDVD/Toast projects. Alas, that appears to be the 
proverbial "pipe dream". If I send the movie right to iDVD from iMovie, 
will I get the best image possible? Does DVD-R media matter? Do I need 
to keep a copy of the original on DV Tape for future use (as in further 
edit sessions, I do not want or have the room to keep my projects on my 
drive)? Was kinda hoping the the DVD would become the new archive as 
well, but I guess poor image quality and the fact that I do not know 
how to record my DVDs back to my computer makes that a no-go. Oh, my 
poor little head is just so full of questions <smile>.