I am importing home videos from my JVC Mini DV camcorder using Roxio. I have two formats to choose when importing: AVI DV and MPEG-2. What are these and what are the differences between the two? Is one better than the other? Please help. Thank you!
2007-06-11 08:08:05 · 2 answers · asked by biker 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
DV is digital video. It is compressed video, but at a very high bit rate (Think of it as a JPEG image for each frame)
(DV is about 15 Mbit/s)
MPEG2 is also compressed, but takes into consideration motion. (Typical DVD is 6 Mbits/s)
Import in DV. This is the native captured resolution and it has the highest quality.
Do all your editing in DV, but eventually you will need to make a DVD of your movie. Then, you will have to use MPEG2.
2007-06-11 14:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by TV guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "distinction" is that AVI is a field. that's no longer a coder/decoder. AVI is composed of basically information that describes how the information is secure in document and the thank you to decompress video and audio (which codec to apply). MPEG4 - is a compressor. Video documents could nicely be compressed with MPEG-4. AVI could nicely be created using any form of codec (or no codec even) for compression, CinePak, Indeo, Huffyuv, etc. For ex.: AVI could have MPEG-4 as Video, and MP3 as Audio. AVI could have Cinepak as Video, and WAV PCM as Audio. Many formats for basically one known AVI field.
2016-12-12 18:09:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋