Whats next beyond DV & DVD's

[fiberop]

I am getting the hang of getting my 8mm camcorder movies onto my Dell(2.26 P4 & 512 RDRAM) pc. I am using the Pinnacle studio deluxe that has the PCI card. It works fine except for some jitter during the capture. I think a dedicated hard drive may solve that problem.

Anyway, I captured 33 minutes of video and sound to the default setting in Pinnacle which is "full" DV quality(no other choice) which turned out to be 7.1 GB. I then ran the "create mpeg" function to get the video ready for DVD burning. This took about 2 hours to do. The result was a 2.23 GB MPEG2 file. I then burned it on a +RW disc and it played fine in my XBOX with acceptable quality.

I just have some thoughts and questions even though I have spent some time here in recent days reading.

Is recording into DV format the ultimate in terms of archiving this type of analog video?

Would creating the full quality DV file be considered creating a "master" of the original video?

Is there professional video equipment that can produce a "better" format than DV coming out of those analog 8mm camcorder tapes? In other words create a "master".

It just seems to me that one cannot simply "throw out" the tapes after burning the MPEG2 file to a DVD and call that DVD the same quality as the original analog tape. I am not sure if I have come to the correct conclusion but to me it seems that way. Also it seems that in the future there might be a better format than DV.

Well if anybody can share their thoughts on this it would be helpful for me.

[poopyhead]

blue ray/laser

supposedly, dual layer format gives you 32 gig...

[ghosty6]

I have been producing DVD's from DV tapes and VHS for about a year now.

Here is what I have found:
1.Capture to AVI uncompressed(large files but no loss in quality)
2.Capture to AVI type1 or 2(smaller files still excellent quality)
3.Capture to Mpg2 (really small files quality is good)

For master you have 3 options:

1. If you need to edit the video in the future use method 1 or 2
2. If you only need to re-burn to DVD later no editing or re-encoding method 3 is ok.
3. Keep the orginal tapes and recapture(not a good option)