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Do I Lose Information When I Record From a Digital-8 Tape to a DVD?
I have been loading family videos from our Digital-8mm camcorder onto our computer.
As far as I can tell, one hour of those videos takes roughly 12 GB on the pc. But, when I burn those videos onto a DVD, the same videos use roughly 4 GB per hour.
Am I losing “quality” or information in this process of copying videos from our camcorder to DVD?
Is there anything I can do about it?
I am mainly copying the videos because I’m concerned that Digital-8 will no longer be used one day in the near future. And, I’m wanted to protect our “family treasures.”
This is not a problem. Most likely when you record initially (the 12GB) that data is uncompressed. DVD has some compression, hence it being 4GB. The compression algorithms for DVDs is pretty excellent as far as quality preservation. You shouldn’t be nervous at all about doing this so long as you follow the DVD standards.
You’re definitely doing the right thing because a DVD will always be better than a cassette. Digital versus audio, digital always wins. Just make two copies of each disc as a backup.
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