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Importing video from a hard drive dvd recorder

by Andrew Evans

on Sep 1, 2010 at 3:39:42 am

hi,

I have some footage recorded to the internal hard drive of a dvd recorder and im wondering to get the best quality if i should burn the video to a dvd and rip it, or should i capture it by analog?

thanks,
andrew

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Re: Importing video from a hard drive dvd recorder

by Jerry Hofmann

on Sep 1, 2010 at 12:38:39 pm

I don't think there's an easy answer for this, but my guts would say rip it from a DVD. If the D/A conversion is really good on the player, it might look OK... might try both?

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Re: Importing video from a hard drive dvd recorder

by John Fishback

on Sep 1, 2010 at 6:59:57 pm

I agree with Jerry. Test it. Compare the component out (or s-video) of the player to an MPEG Streamclip export of the DVD's VOB to ProRes.

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