on 9/11/04 8:52 PM, ansberry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


> The kid who took the video had most of it on his hard drive.  He sent me
> the raw video  files on a dvd.  I may try to run it into iMovie or Final Cut
> Express and see if I can get a better copy that way.
> Even as it stands now, I was able to get some excellent shots of my son,
> Joey from this summer.
> Thanks again.
> Mike

You should be able to get much better quality that way, assuming the raw
video files are DV-25 format, which uses a 5-to-1 compression ratio. The DVD
process (MPEG-2) probably squishes that down by another factor of 5-10 (ie.
between 25 & 50-to-1).

-- 
Gregg


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