Archiving DV
My folks are getting into Mac-centric DV - they have a nice mid-range DV camera, a 2000 iMac (500MHz, 128MB), and a new CD-RW. The question is, what is the best way to archive the DV footage with highest convenience and least loss of quality?
I tried burning VideoCD's from iMovie via Toast, and wasn't terribly impressed with the quality, although you can't beat the compression (about 10 MB per minute of video).
Keeping the original DV footage on the DV tapes (or exporting directly from iMovie to DV tapes) is another option, but it'll get expensive to keep buying new DV tapes.
Burning the original footage to CD's isn't too practical, since uncompressed it eats about 200 MB/minute.
Anyone have any suggestions for a good, high-quality archiving method? Something that would let me fit about 15 minutes of DV onto a CD (so...40 MB/min?) with minimal artifacts?
I tried burning VideoCD's from iMovie via Toast, and wasn't terribly impressed with the quality, although you can't beat the compression (about 10 MB per minute of video).
Keeping the original DV footage on the DV tapes (or exporting directly from iMovie to DV tapes) is another option, but it'll get expensive to keep buying new DV tapes.
Burning the original footage to CD's isn't too practical, since uncompressed it eats about 200 MB/minute.
Anyone have any suggestions for a good, high-quality archiving method? Something that would let me fit about 15 minutes of DV onto a CD (so...40 MB/min?) with minimal artifacts?
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See <a href="http://www.3ivx.com" target="_blank">http://www.3ivx.com</a> for 3ivx Delta.
Are you just trying to archive your finished/cut iMovie? or all the clips you used in it as well? And remember to buy DV tapes in bunched online to save costs.
Mike
It is lossless and then you can have them forever at superb quality!
word out holmes :cool:
The drawback is you can't copy your imovie movie file with all of the edits, clips, dissolves etc.
Perhaps your parents should look at a DVD-RW drive. If they are really getting into doing video stuff, they'd probably like the ability to put their video onto DVDs for playback as well as the ability to store media files on DVD as data for backup. A blank DVD costs about as much as a blank DV tape.