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Exporting DV to Quicktime, Any Loss?
Hello,
I am exporting from a DV-NTSC fully rendered sequence as a DV-NTSC Quicktime Movie. Am I going to see any quality loss when I import the same footage back into a sequence with the same settings, to print to tape? This process seems to help me from getting dropped frames. Does Quicktime compress DV even when the best settings are selected?
Thanks, Chris
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2 Replies
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Nope, no quality loss.
Dropped frames are generally a product of insufficient drive speed, fragmented drives or poor media management on the drives.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thanks Walter!
Thats great to know… I really was thinking Quicktime would add something(or take something away) to the whole process. Thanks for clearing that up.. What a relief. And here one more reason for “Dropped Frames”Using 24pa footage of a DVX100 and cutting in a 23.98 timeline. When you play it back, Final Cut adds the pull-down on the fly, this is processor intensive so reorganizing all the media into one easy to find clip is sometimes the way to go. Especially if your using a little powerbook to print to tape!!
Thanks so much, Chris
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