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Re: quality question

I'm sorry to dissappoint you. Uncompressed means just that. No compression.
Hence no codec.


I'm not disappointed. Vodoo is uncompressed. But it still has a "codec" in the QT output options. And the option of rendering to this "codec" in any QT app. It's "codec" is even Altivec-enhanced so on a G4 it can played in realtime even without the hardware present. Call it a "format" or whatever instead of a codec. This is just semantics now.




And digibeta is most definitely digitized video on the tape, just like when it
is on the hard drive. QuickTime merely packages that data so that the computer
thinks it is a computer file.


So let's say you have a Digibeta tape, and a Digibeta VTR. Now, how does Quicktime "package" that video?

Back to the original point of this thread---that one way or the other one needs hardware to get that "digitized video" from the tape to the hard drive.

Obviously, there is no USB/Firewire/SCSI port on a Digibeta deck (or on any kind of deck other than DV/DVCam/DVCPro). And if the whole point is for MPEG-2, then use a hardware encoder instead of digitizing with Voodoo then using software to encode.

These are the limitations of a software codec--that somewhere in the process one needs hardware if he/she wants to encode video from an external tape source other than DV.


best regards,
bill

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 >Re: quality question (From: "Daniel C" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: quality question (From: Bill Kuper <email@hidden>)
 >Re: quality question (From: DVD Studio Pro <email@hidden>)
 >Re: quality question (From: Bill Kuper <email@hidden>)
 >Re: quality question (From: DVD Studio Pro <email@hidden>)



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