Hi!
First post, forgive me if I'm bleeding too many questions! This first one is really what prompted me to post.
"Generally" what is the best file format to save created video projects for archive and to playback on TV and computer and maybe burn to DVD? Using Pinnacle and the tutorials are about what buttons to push and not what each choice yields. So many choices compared to old version Pinnacle. I know this is not high end software, but I am so familiar with it I stuck with it. Does bad software choice lead to lesser qulaity outcome? (Like Pinnacle vs Adobe vs other)
I thought avi was supposed to be the file format to save in for archival purposes. Is it?
Pinnacle 23 gives avi option of Full Screen DV, mjpeg, small screen, medium screen -- what to choose? File size these days does not matter.
If I choose another format like mp4 it gives many SD, HD options which I can't imagine help my Super 8mm quality - or does it?
Any tutorial links you may have would be great.
I'm in the beginning stages of converting Super 8 film to digital. Doing it old school projection onto matte board and capturing with Canon Vixia HF R11 AVCHD camcorder. Image quality of the projection method is not bad. What's bad is the Super 8 camera used back in the day! I'm not making it worse than when I watch it on projection screen at least.
Despite mixed reviews I ordered the Wolverine frame by frame unit -- has not arrived yet. Projection capture is tedious, always trying to redo capture to get "just a little better focus" when in fact it is partly the film.
I went to Pinnacle 23 because it has a crop feature. The square image of film projection and the camera's wider capture area left me with no image left and right edges when I zoom to capture the full top and bottom aspects of the projected image. My camera does not have an aspect ratio setting -- are there camcorders that do?
Thank you so much!
Bob
First post, forgive me if I'm bleeding too many questions! This first one is really what prompted me to post.
"Generally" what is the best file format to save created video projects for archive and to playback on TV and computer and maybe burn to DVD? Using Pinnacle and the tutorials are about what buttons to push and not what each choice yields. So many choices compared to old version Pinnacle. I know this is not high end software, but I am so familiar with it I stuck with it. Does bad software choice lead to lesser qulaity outcome? (Like Pinnacle vs Adobe vs other)
I thought avi was supposed to be the file format to save in for archival purposes. Is it?
Pinnacle 23 gives avi option of Full Screen DV, mjpeg, small screen, medium screen -- what to choose? File size these days does not matter.
If I choose another format like mp4 it gives many SD, HD options which I can't imagine help my Super 8mm quality - or does it?
Any tutorial links you may have would be great.
I'm in the beginning stages of converting Super 8 film to digital. Doing it old school projection onto matte board and capturing with Canon Vixia HF R11 AVCHD camcorder. Image quality of the projection method is not bad. What's bad is the Super 8 camera used back in the day! I'm not making it worse than when I watch it on projection screen at least.
Despite mixed reviews I ordered the Wolverine frame by frame unit -- has not arrived yet. Projection capture is tedious, always trying to redo capture to get "just a little better focus" when in fact it is partly the film.
I went to Pinnacle 23 because it has a crop feature. The square image of film projection and the camera's wider capture area left me with no image left and right edges when I zoom to capture the full top and bottom aspects of the projected image. My camera does not have an aspect ratio setting -- are there camcorders that do?
Thank you so much!
Bob
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