Posted by Andy Turner on 10/21/05 15:20

On 21 Oct 2005 07:16:32 -0700, "Tim S Kemp" <timskemp@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>Ben wrote:
>
>> Surely not? Transferring via Firewire to a PC then dumping the file onto
>> a DVD should be completely lossless - its the same ones and zeros (or
>> did the OP want a proper playable DVD with mpg2 and vob files)
>
>If you transfer via 1394 to a domestic DVD recorder it will encode as a
>DVD - Mpeg 2. There will be loss of quality and the encoding will make
>editing via PC harder.
>
>If you don't want to edit, just archive I'd go with that as a solution
>- easier and quicker than reeling it into a PC.
>
>Best quality will be via 1394. Probably.

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A domestic DVD recorder would have to re-encode the video in real-time
without being able to analyze the stream with multiple passes. So even
if you don't intended to edit it but just want to convert to MPEG2,
you'd get better results copying the raw DV stream to a PC and then
converting afterwards before writing it to a DVD in the PC.


andyt

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