[MacDV] Re: forcing iMovie to display the dialog

[Mike Rehbein]

Either storage media can be used to store the DV file.
There is no difference in compression, saving a DV file to tape or a  
hard drive saves the same video quality.

The topic is then simply, which media is going to give best service  
over time, and ease of use.

The tape can be referenced any way you wish but you will need to  
manually move the tape to the location and begin reading and stop  
reading, again, manually.

Moving tape across the heads is a wear and head contamination issue  
over time.

Tape is not as robust a storage media as is a hard drive.

Tape wears with each use, much more so than a hard drive does but that  
won't be a factor if you don't use the tape much.

When a spot on the tape becomes unreadable, there goes the file.
Tape is not stored inside a nice clean environment as the disk of a  
drive is.

Think of It an external storage media, subject to changes in heat,  
moisture, contamination.

Mike


On Feb 21, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Norman S. Briskman wrote:

>
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 1:35 AM, Mike Rehbein wrote:
>> Spot on Patty.
>> Tape is far less reliable than today's hard drives.
>
>> Mike, you make a good point. What about tape that can be referenced?
>
>>>> 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?
>
> Mike, this seems to be a question of quality.
>
>
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