Quick one: 8mm Analog Question

[HeadRusch]

I have several 8mm analog mono recordings and the sony camcorder that made them.

I have two options:

- I can plug the camcorder into my Samsung DVDR set-to-box and record directly from 8mm to DVD-R.

- I can plug the camcorder into my Sony HC90 MiniDV camcorder, which is in turn connected via FireWire to my PC, and capture that way to AVI into Pinnacle Studio.


Ultimately what I'll be doing is taking this footage, running it through Pinnacle's Color Corrector (doesa great job that I can tell, takes out the horrid yellow cast the 8mm camera is biased towards), doing some very basic titles and editing, and putting it back on DVD. Archive type stuff.

The real question is: How much quality (Considering the source is 8mm analog) do I lose by going directly to DVDR/MPEG2 via the set-top-DVD recorder versus going into the PC directly as AVI...?

I can easily import the MPEG2 footage into Pinnacle as easily as I could bring in an AVI file.....

In Other Words: is the impact on image quality huge going to mpeg2 and then editing in titles, etc, and putting it back on DVD....or is the impact negligible....

Thanks!

[olyteddy]

If you can capture and edit as DV before encoding to MPEG you'll likely get better results than encoding to MPEG twice.

[ZAPPER]

Going with olyteddy on this one

Being that I am kind of old school I think that DV is the gift of the gods (reads as don't know much else) However there are programs out there for MPEG editing and such if you wanted to go that route.

You could also I guess go from analog thru your digital cam into your PC, edit in DV on the PC, put DV back on your digital cam and then record to DVD on your set top box.

It would be an interesting test to make a DVD on your PC and one on the Set top to see what differences there are.

Good luck