VHS -> DV -> XviD -> DV -> MPEG2 -> DVD

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Realizing that compressed video loses quality with each generation, and
that MPEG4/DivX/XviD isn't best suited for editing, but wanting to
archive home movie tapes from VHS to XviD to save space and for
convience; in the event that I wanted to go back and edit some
compressed XviD files, could I get around generation-quality issues by
converting the XviD files to DV first, and then recompressing the final
product back to XviD or MPEG2?

 

[TR]

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Just keep all of the original tapes. One day, you will wish you did.

Tony


"Ezzard Charles" <user@example.com> wrote in message
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> Realizing that compressed video loses quality with each generation, and
> that MPEG4/DivX/XviD isn't best suited for editing, but wanting to archive
> home movie tapes from VHS to XviD to save space and for convience; in the
> event that I wanted to go back and edit some compressed XviD files, could
> I get around generation-quality issues by converting the XviD files to DV
> first, and then recompressing the final product back to XviD or MPEG2?

 

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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:15:14 GMT, Ezzard Charles <user@example.com>
wrote:

>Realizing that compressed video loses quality with each generation, and
>that MPEG4/DivX/XviD isn't best suited for editing, but wanting to
>archive home movie tapes from VHS to XviD to save space and for
>convience; in the event that I wanted to go back and edit some
>compressed XviD files, could I get around generation-quality issues by
>converting the XviD files to DV first, and then recompressing the final
>product back to XviD or MPEG2?

No, however this will help you in editing (DV can be edited by
numerous editors very well) it will give you more loss.

 

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>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:15:14 GMT, Ezzard Charles <user@example.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Realizing that compressed video loses quality with each generation, and
>>that MPEG4/DivX/XviD isn't best suited for editing, but wanting to
>>archive home movie tapes from VHS to XviD to save space and for
>>convience; in the event that I wanted to go back and edit some
>>compressed XviD files, could I get around generation-quality issues by
>>converting the XviD files to DV first

Not to DV, which is lossy, but to Huffyuv, which is lossless. There
shall be a degradation when converting back to Xvid, but at least you
avoid the degradation when converting _from_ Xvid.