Posted by Smarty on 01/12/06 01:43

Nappy,

Nappy,
I agree with everything you have said below, and conclude that HDV
compressed audio, like HDV compressed video, is indeed less likely to make
it through an editing chain without some additional degradation compared to
less compressed or uncompressed samples. I too consider a highly compressed
acquisition format a handicap in the same sense as you state below. And,
indeed, if you capture in PCM and deliver in mp3, the resulting delivery is
inferior to the original capture.

My original point was, and still is, that your original complaint of hearing
crappy sound coming from an HDV camcorder was ***NOT*** the result of
acquisition versus delivery methods or semantics. Your specific words were:
".....the audio from HDV
cameras is very very poor"..........My point was (and is) that the HDV
format does not inherently capture very very poor audio. Some cameras may
and some may not. The Sony and JVC cameras I have owned and use certainly
deliver very respectable audio. And editing the HDV through the several HDV
programs I use does not create very very poor audio either.

And both of us certainly agree that the very same recording, if done with
true PCM audio capture and uncompressed HD video capture would be superior,
both initially, and especially after editing.

Smarty

Smarty



"Nappy" <noemail@all.com> wrote in message
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> "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
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>> Nappy,
>>
>> Are you somehow trying to suggest or imply that a "DELIVERY" format
> somehow
>> sounds different than an "acquisition" format, or that the fact that it
>> is
> a
>> "DELIVERY" format somehow makes it different?
>
> Since most post processes do send aquisition audio through many stages of
> processing it is unwise, I think, to start with a compressed aquisition
> format unless it is lossless. I consider a highly compressed aquisition
> format a handicap. And yes.. taken literally if your aqusition format is
> PCM
> and your delivery format is Mp3 they will sound different.
>
>
>

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