Remember that DV was invented in the age of Pentium III CPUs and 500MB hard drives, and is very dated. PAL DV uses 4:2:0 and is therefore pretty decent. Most other formats use 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 and others. It’s major drawback is the 4:1:1 colorspace compression (when discussing NTSC users). MPEG is similar in this regard, although it favors compression. An 8mm-wide magnetic tape technology that is used in analog and digital camcorders (see Hi8) and in data applications. We convert VHS, Super VHS, Compact VHS (VHS-C), 8 mm, Hi8, Digital 8. DV was a balance between editing quality and file compression, favoring editing. We will skip any tapes that turn out to be blank or TV so youll only pay for. These problems are not seen on lesser-compressed formats. The format can also suffer from pixelation of bright colored areas. This can present itself in several ways, such as red or green hues being pumped up and fake looking, causing unpleasant video color quality. The DV format (referring to the consumer DV25 format, NTSC version) is often criticized for not having a standardized codec and for having chroma issues because of colorspace compression.
As a shooting format, it’s a good VHS replacement, nothing more. In fact, it’s not even one of the best formats, it’s just very popular. The 4:1:1 NTSC colorspace is also not all that conducive to retaining the full color quality found on the original tape, regardless of what somebody's white paper on DV compression says. There's a number of annoyances with the way the Canopus DV boxes handle video. There is better hardware, for non-DV conversion of video tapes. Best quality, no.įrom the video capture Guru lordsmurf, who I hope will post on this thread: Conversion to DV loses color analog color information.
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