Appendix E. Tips And Techniques - Ulead VIDEO STUDIO 9 User Manual

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Appendix E. Tips and techniques

A. DV camcorder tips
• Format the DV tape before shooting video.
Formatting a DV tape is desirable for batch capture and for
accurately locating timecodes. Formatting here means to
record a "blank" video from start to end without interruption.
This is what a professional cameraman will do with a new DV
tape. Once it is formatted, you can start shooting video. Thus,
when you play your video footage on the DV camcorder, the
counter (displayed as Timecode on the camcorder's LCD
monitor or viewfinder) keeps running even when there's no
actual video.
• How to get the best video quality out of a DV
camcorder.
Capturing video using the IEEE-1394 interface card provides
loss-proof quality. After editing your project, you can then
render your final movie at any file format of your choice.
If you don't have an IEEE-1394 card or a DV camcorder, the
second choice is to use an analog capture card. If you intend
to record your finished project back to the videotape, using an
analog capture card with S-video output yields better video
quality.
B. Web video tips
• Use a smaller frame size for movie files intended for
the Web.
A one-minute video clip, which is captured in its native DV AVI
format from a DV camcorder, takes about 200MB of disk
space. If you have such a large-size captured clip inserted in
your project, it will also take much time to render the project
into a movie file. For files that you intend to send over the
Internet, it's better to use a smaller frame size (for example,
352 x 240) when rendering.