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Clarification on capturing DV footage with Vegas (completely Losslesly with alternate codec)?
Is there a way to use alternate codecs with
vegas in order to capture a mini-dv tape completely
lossless?i’ve heard recently that if you only get
around 15 or so gigs per hour of DV footage—
that there is actually a loss in quality…however
slight it may be. And that you should actually
be using around 40 gigs for completely lossless quality
footage with the huffyuv codec.thanks again for all of your help
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DV capture is a bit-by-bit transfer from your tape to the hard drive. There is no loss unless you’re dropping frames.
Gary
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your DV25 camera compresses the image data 5-1 = approx 3.4 MB/s to hard drive .. there’s nothing you can do about it .. it goes to tape compressed 5-1 .. if you had a sony 40 deck you could transfer over SDI uncompressed BUT it takes the compressed data on tape -then uncompresses it and records to computers hard drive at approx 20MB/s BUT the loss of quality already happened in the dv camera’s 5-1 compression…
there is a company that can modify the panasonic DVX100 for around $3K that will output (approx) 1500×1200 pixel image (4:4:4 color space) to hard drive = no compression …it cannot record this data to tape.
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thanks for your help everyone
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Do you know the name of the company that can do that modification to the DXV100?
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