How can Digital Video camcorders users take advantage of their setup to create high quality MPEG movies?
Digital Videos (DV) are encoded at 720 x 480 pixels (same as MPEG-2) but their video is compressed as 4:1:1, whereas MPEG 1, 2 videos are compressed as 4:2:0. DVD, a subset of MPEG 2 format, also uses 4:2:0. Only a few expensive, special MPEG 2 cards for high definition TV uses 4:2:2, but this format is not DVD conformed.