Uncompressed

[Mrvideo]

So, let me get this straight. You can export a sequence out through a capture card to SDI, back to a deck and get it out as SD 8-10 bit. But can editing a DV sequence in a DV timeline and then opening an SD timeline and moving the DV into the SD codec do the very same thing?

I guess what I am asking is : can you do this without a capture card interveening? MY point is that since titling in DV is iffy, edit in DV – move to SD for titling and then bring it back into DV? Would that really help titling a DV sequence?

[Alan Okey]

[MrVideo] “I guess what I am asking is : can you do this without a capture card interveening? MY point is that since titling in DV is iffy, edit in DV – move to SD for titling and then bring it back into DV? Would that really help titling a DV sequence?”

You need a capture card in order to send 8 or 10 bit uncompressed video out to tape. If you recompress your project back to DV in order to export it via Firewire, you’re defeating the purpose of creating your titles in 8 or 10 bit uncompressed to begin with.

An exception would be if you’re making DVDs. In that case, there would not be a need for a capture card to export the uncompressed video to a deck. Creating all of your titles and graphic elements in an uncompressed sequence and encoding directly to MPEG-2 will provide better results than encoding a DV sequence to MPEG-2.

[Todd Beabout]

No, if you did it this way your titles would get soft when they are encoded to DV. DV is soft and you would do just as good staying in DV for your titling. But Jerry is right, and DV is all over the TV now… not just footage, but stuff posted entirely in DV titles and all. It is what seperates the high-end from the lower-end in production quality.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Chris Poisson]

Todd,

Not true, a DVD made from an uncompressed file will have superior graphics to one made from a DV file. I do this all the time and have done extensive test on it. Alan is correct.

[Todd Beabout]

Actually, I didn’t say anything at all about a DVD. I didn’t even know that that was being discussed.

You’ll notice I was responding to Mr. Video’s post where he said:

“I guess what I am asking is : can you do this without a capture card interveening? MY point is that since titling in DV is iffy, edit in DV – move to SD for titling and then bring it back into DV? Would that really help titling a DV sequence?”

It is correct that going from uncompressed to DVD will look better than going from DV to DVD. I did not mean to imply otherwise.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios