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Posted by Gary Eickmeier on 02/05/06 04:15
Ben wrote:
> How is this being done? As I understand it, the options are;
> 1) Edit HDV by decoding the whole GOP and then re-encoding it, which
> sounds very lossy to me
> 2) Convert to a more lightly compressed intermediate format (presumably
> using only intra-frame compression, like DV) and edit that.
>
> I'm guessing people are going for the 2nd option, but which intermediate
> codec is being used, and are any of them becoming acceptable for
> distribution, or do you have to convert back to HDV (lossy) for that?
No, those are not the only options. Ulead Media Studio Pro uses a
Smartproxy system to edit "offline" with much smaller files, then
outputs using the editing data as an EDL to put the HDV footage back
together again, recompressing only the video sections used in the
effects and leaving the rest native. It is the fastest editing program
available, and has the additional advantage of enabling you to edit on
other, lesser capable computers, such as your laptop, then using that as
an EDL to output online back home. Smart.
Gary Eickmeier
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