Oh - and also --
Does anyone know...?
My department has acquired a new machine that will allow me to copy my mini-DV tape content onto DVDs (in real time, alas). As I recall, there's no real degrading of quality with copying digital stuff, because it's just copying all the ones and zeros, unlike with the magnetic tapes. Can anyone confirm or deny that this would be true, going from tape to DVD? Would it depend on the type of DVD?
I'm wondering if I should back all my tapes up on DVD, for one thing. Also, this would allow me to mail the footage to someone who might want to do some of the editing (Kevin and RJ?). If I copy all the footage onto DVDs, would editing software simply be able to utilize that footage like it would any raw "clip"?
Anyone, anyone?
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I WILL GLADLY EDIT SOME OF THE SCENES If you can get me some of the footage.
kevin
But do you know anything about whether or not you can use what I put onto DVD?
If you just put the data files onto a dvd it will work..I think
The problem with data files is that I will have to capture all the footage before putting it onto DVD (and I will have to capture and delete, capture and delete because of memory) - but if you can use DVD footage (not data) of just what's on the tape, that would be great pretty simple. I'll ask around some AV-techie people here over the weekend -- and continue to hope that someone one else reading the blog might know more than either you or I seem to.
(PS, Kevin - Did you get my e-mail about IMDB?)
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