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avi question
I am working on a project for our church. It is a news broadcast of announcements for upcoming activities. I have designed an opening and closing sequence with motion background, titles and music. If I render these as avi files onto my hard drive, can I use them again in future news projects, without any loss of quality? Or am I better off saving the veg file as a master and starting each new project with the master? Thanks for any advice.
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[Doug Lewis] “If I render these as avi files onto my hard drive, can I use them again in future news projects, without any loss of quality? Or am I better off saving the veg file as a master and starting each new project with the master?”
How are you distributing the video and how long are the two segments?
If you are distributing them on MiniDV, rendering to DV-AVI once would have no effect. If you’re going to DVD, you will, technically, have better quality if you start with the original source each time. However, if they’re sort then rendering to uncompressed AVI may be a viable option to keep the optimum quality.
Edward Troxel
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I will be printing each new “newscast” to miniDV tape, to be shown to our congregation on an LCD projector. I thought it would be easier to just make an avi out of the beginning and end and then just add to subsequent projects, but did not want to lose quality.
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To go to MiniDV, you MUST go to DV-AVI. Therefore, you can render those two segments as DV-AVI, add them to additional projects as needed, and you will NOT lose any quality AS LONG AS you don’t modify them further (i.e. add effects)
Edward Troxel
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Thanks for the advice!
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