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Quality loss.
I am working freelance and have been asked to take footage from mini dv tapes, cut it up and place it in seperate files on a DVD. My employer is concerned about losing quality when I export the seperate clips as quicktime files. I am a mac user and will be importing the footage into FCP, cutting it up, and then exporting it. Is there any loss of quality or resolution, noticeable or otherwise during this process? Is quality lost just be capturing the footage? If so, is there any way to log and capture footage, cut it up and then export it without losing any quality? Any other suggestions in general?
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just as long as you log and capture as DV, and export the files as DV, you will not lose any quality.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Put them on DVD? Well, if you author it like a standard DVD that plays in DVD players, yes, there will be quality loss. But if you copy the files to DVDs as DATA DVDs, then there won’t be.
But you do realize that 1 hour of DV is 13GB, and DVDs hold 4.5GB at a time, right? This means breaking up the footage and making a LOT of DVDs…
Shane
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After you capture, choose file/export/QT movie… and use “current settings” as well as check on “make self contained”. This is lossless.
Jerry
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