From: Beth Capper (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Mar 07 2009 - 08:48:01 PST
Thank you all. Your advice has been very helpful.
Best,
Beth
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Bart Weiss <email suppressed> wrote:
> 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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