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Posted by Tim S Kemp on 10/22/05 07:28
Andy Turner wrote:
> 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.
>
> [uk.rec.video.digital added]
>
> 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.
True - but then a DV tape is only 60-90minutes at worst, so the bitrate
doesn't have to be set that low anyway and is more than adequate.
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