Re: [MLUG] video compression

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Jan 7, 2008 2:26 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Mark Rages wrote:
>
> > Standard definition digital video is stored as "DV" data. Both "miniDV"
> > and "digital8", as well as professional formats use this compression
> > system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dv
>
> That article was *very* helpful, especially this part:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dv#Application_software_support
>
> Apparently, the Windows program I was using is storing a .avi file and a
> .scn file (scene file) where the .avi file holds the video and audio and
> the scene file holds the metadata (time stamps for sections of the video,
> I guess).
>
> Maybe it would be better to store .dv instead, but I think the .avi and
> .scn together have all of the information of the original .dv.  I had told
> Pinnacle Studio to use DV format (the default) and it still gave me this
> AVI/SCN.  Maybe it is possible to convert back to .dv if I had a reason to
> do so.
>

That's right, the avi format is just a wrapper around the DV.  It's
not a big deal to convert between them.  Just use whatever your
software prefers.

Regards,
Mark
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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