Posted by :::Jerry:::: on 10/31/62 11:34

"Jack P" <vidpro40@optonlineDOT.netX> wrote in message
news:Pw6nf.23789$L7.537@fe12.lga...
> I would say that the DV picture does get noisier between
generations ----
>
> but I'm not sure that this is the DV's fault or mine as I used to
have to
> bounce a few generations
>
> down and could definitely see that the blacks and certain saturated
colors
> were getting grainyer
>
> with each generation. I did bounce to different codecs though ---
like going
> from regular DV to
>
> canopus real-time DV to Vegas DV, to Quicktime DV -- and I don't
remember
> the recompression settings.
>
> Now I just hold off and try to keep one timeline and use fewer
subclips.
>
> FYI , for the wise asses out there --- I used to be a freelance TV
engineer
> and I really can "see"
>
> the aforementioned GRAIN...
>
>

<appalling message formatting but never mind...>

A DV > DV copy should be bite for bite but if the data stream is
being decompressed and then recompressed (or in some other way
'rendered') there will be some Generational Loss.
--
Regards, Jerry.
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