Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question but here goes:

I have captured footage from a DV camera, edited it in Pinnacle 9.3 and
burned it to a DVD. Now but rather than save/archive the edited AVI files
from Pinnacle, can I now delete these on the assumption that if I want to
re-use/re-edit the footage at a later date, there is an easy way to extract
it from the DVD?


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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:03:43 +0000 (UTC), "Bob Edwards"
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Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question but here goes:

I have captured footage from a DV camera, edited it in Pinnacle 9.3 and
burned it to a DVD. Now but rather than save/archive the edited AVI files
from Pinnacle, can I now delete these on the assumption that if I want to
re-use/re-edit the footage at a later date, there is an easy way to extract
it from the DVD?


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yes you can , but there is a major caveat

your dvd , assuming one hour in length will be just about 4GB
your 1 hour dv tape was 13GB for the same size in time.

so you will only have a more compressed version available for
re-editing later.

far better to keep the dv tape somewhere safe if you intend to re-edit
later.

Gary MacKenzie
Video Editor

far better to keep the dv tape somewhere safe if you intend to re-edit
later.

Gary MacKenzie
Video Editor

Thanks Gary


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"Bob Edwards" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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... if I want to re-use/re-edit the footage at a later date,

Bob: Good question.
Depending on importance, uniqueness, of the shooting,
I am often saving my DV / DVCAM camera footage
on Fuji S-VHS Pro archive tapes.

Linking the DVCAM player to a SVHS edit recorder,
incl bars, blackburst and tone, the loss can be neglected.

Cheers

Chris
Kiel, Germany

"Bob Edwards" wrote in message
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Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question but here goes:

I have captured footage from a DV camera, edited it in Pinnacle 9.3 and
burned it to a DVD. Now but rather than save/archive the edited AVI files
from Pinnacle, can I now delete these on the assumption that if I want to
re-use/re-edit the footage at a later date, there is an easy way to
extract
it from the DVD?


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To avoid total re-rendering and further loss in quality when re-editing the
MPEG you need an MPEG editor which can detect the MPEG format used on the
DVD and use that as the project settings. I believe Wombat's MPEG video
editor can do that, can't comment on others.