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11. April 2007 @ 16:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm in the process of backing up my 8mm video tapes to a hard drive and I just finished capturing all the analog video. I now want to start capturing the Digital 8, my question is will I lose a lot of quality if I use the mpeg format instead of DV? The Hard drive I'm using has 27 hours available for meg capture but only 5 hours if I do the DV, is there that big a difference?

For refernce I'm using Pinnacle 10 software that offers a choice between Mpeg 1/2 or DV capture.
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12. April 2007 @ 07:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The best option is to capture in DV-AVI. This will get you the highest quality. Depending on what you want to do with it afterwards you can encode to any other format you want. For DVD you need MPEG-2. Anyway, it is always better not to encode during capture, but to do it afterwards with a decent encoder.

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