Unfortunately, television and videotape are lower-quality mediums compared to typical computer graphics systems and digital video, especially in terms of resolution and color artifacts. Therefore, you need to put extra effort into the design and testing of your Director movies so they look and sound good when output to videotape and broadcast. However, your authoring techniques have a significant affect on image quality. For example, use of fonts that are too small will result in illegible text on the final videotape. One-pixel thick horizontal lines will result in video artifacts.
Director includes many features and capabilities which allow high quality output to videotape.
All of these methods convert whatever is displayed on the computer monitor to television video, including a Director movie. The resulting signal can then be recorded onto videotape. DiaQuest and other vendors make systems that allow control of edit VCRs. The higher quality signals and connectors are often found on the more expensive equipment. Refer to third party vendors and manufacturers of the above-mentioned equipment, and also digital video trade magazine product reviews, for additional information on this topic.