On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:09:19 -0400, ar407@freenet.carleton.ca (R. Geoff Baker) wrote:

>
>> If you are converting CODECs, the processing time can be
>> quite long... Highest quality: capture in AVI (which is
>> what is already on the Mini-DV tape), edit in AVI, and
>> export in AVI (and/or make an AVI file of the edited
>> video, then convert it to the desired CODEC form, if
>> desired).
>
>Note that the application of the term 'avi' here is not very precise: You can
>generate an 'avi' that is a highly compressed codec, or an avi that is raw
>dv data. For that matter, there are edit solutions that work with 'mov'
>files -- which too can be either raw DV codec or another more highly compressed
>codec. That said, it seems wise to edit & master to the source codec --dv in
>this instance -- and then recompress from your edited master to a second
>distribution codec. But the term avi doesn't describe the codec at all, merely
>indicating a (very large) set of codecs that can be identified within the file
>packaging standard that is represented by 'avi'.
>
>Cheers,
>GB
>gb@bakerfilms.com


Point well taken - though it is unlikely in the process
of capturing, editing, and exporting Mini-DV that
alternative DV-AVI types will be encountered...(?).
(Perhaps I should have said "in the same-type AVI"
where I said "in AVI", etc., to be more precise...;-)