Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/11/06 16:51

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:42:37 GMT, not@home.now (GMAN) wrote:

>There shouldnt be any recompression going on if one is just moving DV from one
>device to another. Of course if any transitions or any type of editing is
>done then yes you will see some slight reduction in quality over multiple
>generations. But even this is sometimes at a minimun due to software using
>smart rendering where only the parts that are edited are rendered.

Indeed, no recompression then. The MS-codec was at one time so bad that as
soon as a part was rendered, you could see a jump in quality (worsen).
Fortunately they revised that soon for the poor souls which were relying
solely on that monstrous codec.

cheers

-martin-
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"If he can he'll smile 'cos he's a Royal Crocodile."

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