--- You wrote: if I'm in error, someone straighten me out! Best regards, Dana --- end of quote --- Forgive me but I'll try. Digital video is digital video. You take analog from vhs, or your tv or 8mm or hi8 and send it to a video digitizer also known as a video analog/digital converter. Your A/V card or pci video card has a a/d converter on it. So does an outboard video digitizer that works through firewire.
The digitizer produces a digital video file on the computer's hard drive. It can be in any number of formats including DV in a couple of flavors, AFF etc. They can be in highly compressed formats such as mpeg1 and mpeg2 or 3. It is important to understand that digital video formats can be converted from one to the other, sometimes with no loss in quality, sometimes with some loss. You can also scale the image to fill the screen. Often it takes a considerable amount of computing time, which is where a fast computer comes in handy. Overnight works well for me. The video editing programs you mentioned can work in various formats. Adobe Premiere is happy with DV as is Final Cut to which it is very similar. I don't know Premiere very well, but I do know that FC can accept a number of different formats and can output many too. iMovie requires DV but you can convert most formats to DV using Quicktime Pro and other programs. None of these editing programs care how the digital video got onto your hard drive. Firewire, usb, serial or digital video created in the computer: whatever. Pick the editing program that works for you and convert your a/v video to it. iMovie is a very good choice for those new to video editing. You may never be constrained by its limits. If you find it can't do what you want, you will have gained a lot of experience that will be of use to you if you decide to climb the learning curve of Final Cut or Premiere or Avid. I'm not an expert in these matters and I had to work hard to get my Beige system going in DV. I've had invaluaable help getting there from members of this list,which is why I'm happy to share what I've learned. Rich -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
