A master was a high quality copy of the finished fansub from which many distribution copies could be made.
Matley told Rather "he could not authenticate the documents due to the fact that they were poor quality copies."
The transformation is typically lossy, resulting in a lower quality copy of the original input.
A quality copy has long been sought by collectors.
A complete, though poor quality copy, exists and has been distributed by the Grapevine company in Arizona.
After the film's commercial failure, the negative disappeared, and until the 1980s it was largely known through incomplete and poor quality copies.
He also required a camera that would enable him to make good quality copies.
The forgeries are said to be good quality copies.
These low quality copies began circulating among assassination researchers and were known to many journalists as well.
"A quality copy will be your ally in trying to defeat me."