Forum: Animation


Subject: AVI to VHS tape transfer/conversion?

Dave opened this issue on Apr 24, 2000 ยท 4 posts


Terry Mitchell posted Wed, 26 April 2000 at 3:31 PM

I agree with wfce. I edit Poser/Bryce animations in Adobe Premiere using Pinnacle's excellent miroDV300 board and miroInstant software to make high-quality digital tapes on a Sony miniDV camcorder that I then transfer to VHS tape. (Of course I also use Premiere and miro to make digital copies of the animations in .avi or .mov formats suitable for posting on the web, burning onto CD's, etc.) One of the advantages of using the miro setup is it bypasses the infamous 2 GB file size limit. (I've edited 60-minute videos in a single Premiere project - but you need a lot of storage space. I use an 18 GB SCSI external hard drive for all my video files, keeping them separate from system files like Premiere, Poser, etc.) Another advantage of miro is that when you render clips in Premiere, you only render the changed parts instead of the entire clip or project, and this cuts down on disk space useage tremendously compared to many other video editing systems. They have a new version called DV500 out, but I'm not sure of what advantages it might offer over the DV300, except I think it handles both digital and analog material whereas the DV300 is just digital.

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