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MiniDV vs. Betacam or DVCPro

from Rob Frei (rafrei@earthlink.net)
I am helping a local church shoot a commercial for TV broadcast (not something that I normally do). I will be shooting with my Canon XL1s and editing in FCP3. Normally, I archive my work to miniDV and I usually output to DVD using DVDSP.

However, the local cable company has requested either DVCPro or Beta for broadcast. I do not own a VTR for either -- nor am I interested in buying/ renting one for this small project.

What are my options? Is the quality of MiniDV roughly equivalent to Betacam (I have seen some debate on this). Since this is only a 30 second commercial, I could output a DV format file in QuickTime to DVD as well. Seems to me that this would be even easier than outputting to a VTR (given my limitations). Any thoughts?

Thx.

(posted 7667 days ago)

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