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Vegas>DVD>Mini DV>3/4 inch. Quandry
Sorry, this will be a long-winded query:
Situation:An older friend has a slot on a local ethnic-show TV, and produces a show every week. He is not computer-literate, uses…3/4 inch tape casette decks to edit. The local TV accepts these because of his respected age and very long association with them.
I have given him some video material to use, and this is what he wants:
1) I produce my material in DVD format & provide him with the DVD disk.
2) He converts it (how I don’t know?) to digital mini-casette.3) He electronically sends it to, and edits it using (ancient) 3/4 inch tape casettes.
4) Gives the final 3/4 inch tape casette to the TV studio.
The telecast quality is less than ideal (not unexpected.)
My question is:In what format should I give him my material, for better quality and ease of his workload?
(Somehow I think that the DVD disk format is not the most suitable, but I do not know more than what I wrote above.)
I use Vegas 11 editing, and have several choices as to the output.
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7 Replies
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If your computer has a firewire port and you have or have access to a miniDV camcorder, give it to him on that.
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Many thanks for your response. Unfortunately the current laptop I’m using does not have a firewire port.
John23GR
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A regular DVD will hold approximately 20 minutes of footage in DV-AVI format.
If your segment times are less than that, burn them to a data DVD in that format and give those to him for further editing. -
Thank you, the segments are less than 20 minutes. I can do what you are suggesting. I assume this would better preserve quality. But I wonder how he would “extract” them into Mini-DV which he (must) use? (He has no computer of any kind.) I would not be able to tell him because I do not know. Could you elaborate on this, please?
John23GR
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Between the two of you, your friends and the folks at the TV station, someone must have a computer and a miniDV camcorder that could be used to transfer your footage from DVD to tape.
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Yes, ideally it should go from computer (say MPG2) to miniDV camcorder, unfortunately the laptop on which I edit does not have firewire.
Different issue: My friend says that there is a slight flaw in synchronization between video and audio in the “final product” which is 3/4 inch casettes (what he gives to the TV station.)
My results, when finished rendering play in my laptop in perfect sync. Also look OK on the resulting DVD. But that DVD gets transferred (I don’t know how) to a MiniDV casette, then to 3/4 inch, then assembly edited onto another 3/4 inch deck. Could all this processing cause the sync=problem?John23GR
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John, there are too many unknowns in this convoluted process to be able to definitively say where the problem lies.
I used to use 3/4″ several years ago and, while it was a great format in its day, its time has expired (at least in the area I live).
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