On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 04:48:25 GMT, "John H" wrote:

[Re: what is best low-cost digital format to]
>master to when you have completed a project in Premiere with a DV-Raptor RT?
>When the project is finished and I need to get it exported to a digital
>medium - should I just buy a recordable dvd-drive or a mini-dv recorder or
>what?
>Should I consider just dumping on an external, portable firewire hard-drive
>that I could take to a tape-duplication / production house ??
>Final product in this case will be to air on cable television and UHF tv .

Run it back out to a Mini-DV tape (I make two copies, for
safety) - this will provide the highest-quality masters
possible, and do it for about $5-8 a master tape... From
these, you can make copies for other purposes. Dupe houses
can read Mini-DV tapes...