From: Bart Weiss (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 07:16:15 PST
Indeed there is software that can do you
and you already have it on your computer
ITUNES
last year we ran all of the Dallas VIdeo Festival off of ITUNES
and it worked perfectly
for one you have no problem with switching between 16 x9 and 3x4
or any of the different hi def tape formates
it spits out what you give it
it also it is essentially first generation
a copy of the file that came out of your editing software
we be more pristine than a tape i
it is simple and it works
but I would defiantly do some tests on your system
bart
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Robert Schaller wrote:
> Does it need to be compiled to tape? Why not digitize it all to QT
> files,
> and play them all off a computer? There is software out there that
> can put
> together a show order and play the files successively as if they
> were a
> single timeline (but I confess I don't know the title at the moment --
> anyone?), so that then the files all play at whatever resolution you
> have,
> either in NTSC or PAL, and nothing ever needs to be converted.
> You'll just
> need a portable harddrive to put them all on, and you can play them
> from a
> laptop.
>
> Seems like a better solution. I agree with Pip that video is
> needlessly
> cumbersome, but tape is the worst part. I think the best answer is
> not to
> use it if you don't have to.
>
>
> On 3/6/09 2:57 AM, "Pip Chodorov" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> 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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>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
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Bart Weiss
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