Posted by Ben on 02/03/06 09:20

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?

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