[X4U] Re: Ambitious DVD Project.

[Michael Winter]

On May 19, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Nick Scalise wrote:

> My recommendation is not to go to DVD.
>
> My recommedation is to have them record to and to send a MiniDV tape. 
> So that consumers of their service can actually use what they produce.

My assumption was that most places digitized to DV. What I would think 
the original poster would want is a direct copy of the originally 
digitized data. Any encoding/transcoding done after the initial 
digitization is going to decrease the quality of the video. Either 
splitting the DV across several "data" DVD's or copying directly to an 
external hard drive supplied by the customer would work.

If you have the Telecine house encode the DV to mpeg2 to burn to a 
video DVD, you not only lose quality, you lose the ability to edit the 
video easily. I think that's basically what Nick (and i) am trying to 
say.

Since the original poster wants to edit video and create DVD's using 
iLife 05, getting the video in DV would be the optimal solution. If 
they receive the video in any other format, it will have to be 
converted to DV before editing, then converted again for the DVD. Both 
steps will be lossy.

-Mike