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Posted by Richard Crowley on 10/05/16 11:52
"Binba" wrote ...
> If you make a DV-to-DV dub, what would the
> quality difference be like if you use firewire,
> and if you use analog component? My current
> assumption is that if I'm capturing online for
> mastering/distibution, a digital dub should be
> just fine, whereas I'll think twice before onlining
> from the component dubs.
Assuming a DV source, there is no question that the
digital method of connection will result in a better
result than ANY analog method up to and including
component.
The reason is very simple. DV video is defined in the
digital domain and that is the way it exists on tape,
and as transmitted through Firewire. Except for
unrecoverable digital errors (which are vanashingly
rare with DV/Firewire), there is no "generation
loss" or any other kind of loss from any kind of
digital transfer.
OTOH, any step that involves any kind of analog
requires the DV data stream to be decoded to analog,
which IS a "lossy" step. And then encoding the analog
back into almost any kind of digital is likely another
lossy step.
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