whats the best q dvdr to save old video onto?

[bionickaren]

see when u record a video onto dvd do u get a carbon copy of the video? ie same colour and picture q? i know some times when u record a older video onto dvd it looks better alittler cleaner and the sound is higher than the video, so what happens with the colour? better or even bad? do the dvd them selfs matter in the outcome of the recording? thanks

karen

[redwudz]

DVD is a digital format. If you make one copy or one thousand, they should all be the same. As far as media, that is mostly a quality issue with the brand of media, and quality problems would show up as errors on the DVD. This should still not affect the color, audio or any other parts of the video. Cheaper media may have the most problems at the outer edge. Reducing the size of your DVD file so that it doesn't burn to the outer edge helps. A DVD holds about 4.37 GB. Reducing your file size about 200MB can help with cheaper media.

If you are asking about the best quality media, Taiyo Yuden still seems to be one of the best. Most all 'Made in Japan' media is good. Some other media made in other countries has worked well also. There is also the issue of your burning software, your burner brand and your standalone player brand. These all need to be compatible with each other. When you find the combination that works, stick with it.

[uxbridge]

if you record a video onto a DVD and you do it properly you will obtain something that will visually look a carbon copy of the video. Not better.
However once your video has been transferred into the digital domai, i.e. after having been captured by the capture card, you can apply filters and arguably improve quality, i.e. you can enhance or reduce saturation of colors, enhance picture contrast and so on. Sometime this can improve quality of the video in itself especially if the video is old. If you then burn a DVD out of this restored video, then you might find this copy having better quality than the original.
Concerning the DVD in itself, brand and quality do not matter for what above.
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