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Capturing in “Preview” quality
I’ve a prog to capture selected sets of clips from about 35 tapes and composite them into something I can hand to the customer for choices on which clips he wants. Problem is, he’s not sure what he wants at all across the whole breadth of all the footage.
What I’m lookng for then is a way to capture in a fairly low quality video format so he can see all his footage just well enough to give me tape numbers and In-Out points for what he wants to keep and use later for output to DvD. Of course file sizes and output format are the key issues so am thinking QT and cut up the chunks into manageable file sizes to throw on a DvD for his review but I’ve no idea and don’t see much info anywhere on downgrading the video quality during capture to minimize space requirements. My only options are DV or HDV afaik.
Do I actually have any others or a workaround short of capturing at standard quality and then change quality or compression at render time?
What’s the most obvious is my storage needs for nearly 70 hours of raw avi files (if that’s what I must contend with) while he makes up his mind. That’s serious space for a shoestring budget.
Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
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PPro will not capture DV or HDV to any other format.
You will need to find a third-party solution. Unfortunately I don’t have any recommendations, because I have never had to do this, however I’m sure an Internet search will provide solutions.
Cheers
Eddie
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