Hi,
After having used a companions PC for editing using Premier 6.0 I got quite used to it and found the quality very good. I have since setup my own PC and installed premier 6.0. I am finding a loss of quality somewhere between capture and putting footage back onto the DV Tape.
I have no access to my companions PC so I cannot compare settings etc - my only reason for mentioning it was that I know the quality should be better!
My setup is this;
AMD Athlon XP2600, 512Mb RAM, 160G and 30G ATA Hard Drives.
I have Firewire on the MB and do not have a capture card.
I installed Premier 6.0.
After reading countless forums etc, I am more than a bit confused. My main aim is uploading clips from DV PAL tape to PC, minimal editing (mainly cutting down to 20 minutes of short clips) and a small bit of slow speed, and simple transitions. I want to put this back onto DV Tape in as best quality as possible, regardless of size.
My questions are this;
1. Is using my firewire port instead of a dedicated capture card ok?
(My understanding is that if going from DV tape to PC requires no coding, and therefore shouldn't require a capture card)
2. I have added no extra codecs, the default setup for my project I am using is ; DV-Pal Standard 48Khz. Project settings - editing mode - DV playback; Compressor - Microsoft DV PAl.
Would I be better using another codec? Should the editing mode be "video for windows"? and then use one of the codecs available under that setting?
I am noticing when I export the finished product to tape, there is a small but noticeable loss in quality, with what looks like a dropped frame every 10-20 seconds.
My understanding is that there shold be no compression from DV tape to PC, and then after I render transitions etc, there will be compression before I put it back to DV tape. How can I minimise loss of quality?
Apologies if this is answered elsewhere but I have trauled through the forums and cannot find any answers.
Thanks for any help!
After having used a companions PC for editing using Premier 6.0 I got quite used to it and found the quality very good. I have since setup my own PC and installed premier 6.0. I am finding a loss of quality somewhere between capture and putting footage back onto the DV Tape.
I have no access to my companions PC so I cannot compare settings etc - my only reason for mentioning it was that I know the quality should be better!
My setup is this;
AMD Athlon XP2600, 512Mb RAM, 160G and 30G ATA Hard Drives.
I have Firewire on the MB and do not have a capture card.
I installed Premier 6.0.
After reading countless forums etc, I am more than a bit confused. My main aim is uploading clips from DV PAL tape to PC, minimal editing (mainly cutting down to 20 minutes of short clips) and a small bit of slow speed, and simple transitions. I want to put this back onto DV Tape in as best quality as possible, regardless of size.
My questions are this;
1. Is using my firewire port instead of a dedicated capture card ok?
(My understanding is that if going from DV tape to PC requires no coding, and therefore shouldn't require a capture card)
2. I have added no extra codecs, the default setup for my project I am using is ; DV-Pal Standard 48Khz. Project settings - editing mode - DV playback; Compressor - Microsoft DV PAl.
Would I be better using another codec? Should the editing mode be "video for windows"? and then use one of the codecs available under that setting?
I am noticing when I export the finished product to tape, there is a small but noticeable loss in quality, with what looks like a dropped frame every 10-20 seconds.
My understanding is that there shold be no compression from DV tape to PC, and then after I render transitions etc, there will be compression before I put it back to DV tape. How can I minimise loss of quality?
Apologies if this is answered elsewhere but I have trauled through the forums and cannot find any answers.
Thanks for any help!