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Can a Videotape (VHS, SVHS) be used as a master for editing?

April 26, 2017editing master svhs Used VHS videotape

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Can a Videotape (VHS, SVHS) be used as a master for editing?

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Absolutely! – but not recommended. The video is captured to our hard drives in DV uncompressed high resolution files. It is from these files that we author to various digital and analog formats. Although a Digital Video tape (MiniDV) has much better resolution than a analog videotape (VHS, SVHS), it can be used as a master for editing but at a lower quality.