One computer with 30+ card for recording to and capturing from the SVHS VCR and other PAL sources. A 300 card for digital capture and playback to a DV camcorder. This machine did previously only had the 30+ card and rushes were transferred with SVHS quality.
I would like the action of transferring data to and from the camcorder to be completely loss-free (i.e., no conversions used). I would also like to save finished Premiere projects back on DV tape with minimal losses (zero loss where no effects etc. have been used). What settings do I need to change? And how can I get Premiere to output older projects to the 300 card rather than the 30+ card?
Thanks for any answers!
Dear Myxei,
If I remember right the DC 30 though I have not used it is MJpeg and If you want to transfer your edited work onto DV you will have to change to the DV codec and the right parameters 720/576 I think, and then rerender the movie which may be rather time consuming and you are likely to have some loss of quality. I would suggest that you use the footage from the DC 30+ and connect your card to your DV recorder. It will save you time and I doupt you would see the difference.
Tomas Busse
There should be a DC30+->DV300 preset in Premiere, but if you use that then InstantVideo will have to convert every single MJPEG file to DV format, which is slow, slow, slow. I just output it from the DC30+ and record onto DV with the camera's analog inputs; the quality is probably slightly lower, but still looks pretty good.