[MacDV] Re: forcing iMovie to display the dialog

[Mike Rehbein]

Spot on Patty.
Tape is far less reliable than today's hard drives. The access to  
files on a tape is serial, meaning if you wanted a file that was half- 
way into the tape, there is a wait to access and copy the file. A hard  
drive gives direct access to individual files. So if you have a 3  
minute clip, you can either save it to a hard drive for easy access or  
it would be somewhere on a 1 hour tape.

Mike

On Feb 20, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Patty Winter wrote:

>> From: Martin Modrzejewski <mmodrzejewski at shaw.ca>
>>
>> The best quality copy you can make is still to export out of iMovie
>> back to a blank tape in your camcorder.
>
> Is tape really better than saving an uncompressed DV file to
> a hard drive??
>
>
> Patty
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