[Brian Mason]

Dave,

Sorry for the delayed response.

I finally tried “print to tape” an it looks the same viewing it on the new tape version. So I guess it is just a side effect of stretching the video to bigger monitors.

Thanks for enlightening me about how the data is stored on the tape, that makes sense to me now. So when I capture off of my camera the studio makes a bunch of AVI clips. Then the studio allows me to arrange those clips an create a new combined larger AVI clip. When I do that it states that no compression is needed since the output format matches the captured format.

Thanks again for your help.

Brian

[Brian Mason]

Dave,

Thanks for the response.

Yes I am using Firewire to transfer the video.

When I render the video to the hard drive I select the Video for Windows (*.avi) which results in NTSC DV with
Video: 29.970 fps, 720X480

Is there a better format to use?

I have a AOC back lit LED monitor that claims 50,000,000:1 DCR. It is a 1900 X 1200 and I use a DVI connection.

I am using windows media player on Windows 7 Pro.

I may be that I am getting the best possible copy of the videos that I can. I am doing this for 2 reasons:
1. To preserve the original video as close as I can to the original format without losing quality.
2. To have them on a big server for my family to view anytime they want.

Thanks again for the help.

Brian