From: Pip Chodorov (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 01:57:15 PST
Beth,
A lab can do this for you, and it's hard to reply without knowing
what equipment you have.
The rule of thumb is to start with the highest quality source
materials, high quality DV tapes or noncompressed files. Avoid DVDs
because they are wickedly compressed with MPEG2. PAL is higher
quality than NTSC but the transcoding question will be determined by
the format you need for the screening. You can transcode at home in a
computer: for example you can digitize the PAL video into Final Cut
onto a PAL timeline, then open a new timeline in NTSC and copy it in.
Then output that back onto an NTSC camera or deck. The quality will
be less good than if you transcode in a postproduction house with
hardware converters.
So technically, you could create a broadcast quality edit of your
whole screening, all the shorts in sequence, in Final Cut and output
the whole thing onto one tape.
Too bad video is so complicated. You could do the same on film with
just scissors and tape!
At 21:13 -0600 5/03/09, Beth Capper wrote:
>I am putting together a screening of shorts and need some tech help.
>I need to compile all the films onto Mini DV from either QT files or
>multiple Mini DVs. Some of the Mini DV's are in PAL and some are
>NTSC... do I need to convert the PAL to NTSC and if so, how do I do
>this? Also, is it possible to take films from DVD and put them onto
>Mini DV, and if so, does this greatly diminish the quality?
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