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Posted by Tony on 12/22/06 05:12
This is completely incorrect:
>My shop had a similar situation and that's what we have: a temp, a
>deck, and a Panasonic DVD recorder buring to DVD-R at the highest
>quality setting. Even though it's mpeg-2 it is still better than the
>umatic already.
If yo copied the uncompressed U-Matic video to hard drive, 1 hour would take up over 60GB.
One hour of your U-Matic tape to DVD takes up a couple of GB.
Even better would not to go to DVD at all, which is crap. It looks good to average consumers but it
really is just a massive compression that looks good to the eye. The next step would be to transfer
to miniDV or full DV. Even that would cause a 5:1 compression loss.
Anyway, mp2 is far worse than anything the u-matic recorded. The quality can never get better than
what is on that tape. It can only get worse by compressing the info or to record analog. Go with
the tapes (DV). They will last as long as the U-matics and VHSs out there, which is over 20 years if
stored properly. One scratch on a DVD and say goodbye to the entire disk.
Tony
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