Print to tape

[Walter Biscardi]

If your clips are originally DV and you put them into an uncompressed timeline, then they will take another DV compression hit when you lay them back to tape.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Damien Sanville]

Thanks Walter

I’d like to clarify this:

– My source material is DV PAL as well as my capture and seq. settings. After editing and applying effects to the clip (color / fades in and out / speed change / deinterlace etc.) do I lose any quality if ‘Print to tape’ the sequence back on to DV tape?

– After adding effects on DV PAL seq. from DV pal source material, is it better to set seq. on ‘Uncompressed 10bit’, render and then export it as QT self contained movie, or to export it using QT conversion set on ‘Uncompressed 10bit’?

– Also: how can I output Uncompressed clips from hard drive without re-compressing them to DV tape? Is Beta SP the best option?

Thanks for your patience

Damien

[Walter Biscardi]

[damien3605] “- My source material is DV PAL as well as my capture and seq. settings. After editing and applying effects to the clip (color / fades in and out / speed change / deinterlace etc.) do I lose any quality if ‘Print to tape’ the sequence back on to DV tape?”

No, if you go firewire back to DV tape, you are getting a digital clone of your timeline.

[damien3605] “- After adding effects on DV PAL seq. from DV pal source material, is it better to set seq. on ‘Uncompressed 10bit’, render and then export it as QT self contained movie, or to export it using QT conversion set on ‘Uncompressed 10bit’?”

If you are always going to go back to DV as your master tape, you are accomplishing nothing using this method. Just export as DV and you will have an identical clone to your original project.

[damien3605] ”
– Also: how can I output Uncompressed clips from hard drive without re-compressing them to DV tape? Is Beta SP the best option?”

Using a capture card like the AJA Kona or an external box like the AJA Io series and laying off to an uncompressed source machine like BetaSP or DigiBeta.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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