Posted by stauffer on 01/07/07 16:33

Jim S wrote:
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> People say that you need to use miniDV for the best results, but they then
> go and make a DVD of their film and compress a 12 gig file down to 4 gig.
>

But you are only going through the lossy compression ONCE that way. If
you take a DVD, load the video into an editor, and burn the DVD you
have gone through it twice.

Sort of like JPEGs with stills. One jpeg compression on typical high
quality (low compression) setting doesn't hurt things too much. You
don't want to reJPEG it many times, however. You lose a bit each time.

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