Posted by Moving Vision on 09/19/05 18:26

The key to maintaining the integrity of both the HDV video and it's MPEG
2 audio is in the post production. As far as the video goes the Canopus
Edius SP is currently head and shoulders above any other HDV solution
because of it's unique and rather clever HQ codec. It's format free time
line allows HDV to be edited just like so called 'native HDV', mixed
with any other type of media and output to any type of media including
HDCAM but without the qualitative compromises of 'native HDV', such as
provided with 'best of the rest' Final cut Pro 5.

As for the MPEG 2 audio the key is to digitise it into the system as 48K
PCM before doing anything with it. Once it's PCM you can muck about with
it 'till the cow come home and it won't be subject to further
compression issues. The first generation MPEG 2 recorded to tape on such
as the Z1 is quite good enough for most purposes and actually better
then most other compact DV's because of the broadcast standard preamps.
--
John Lubran

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