Posted by Digital Video Solutions on 12/06/06 11:00

HDV downsampled will not be close to 10bit as long as you are editing in
8bit. The picture will be clear just due to the camera itself, but once
downsampled the video is still DV 4:1:1.

<mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Digital Video Solutions wrote:
>> The Sony HDV camcorders will allow you to output in either HDV or DV
>> through
>> the 1394 port. It is not necessary to capture in HDV and downsample. Read
>> the manual it is explained in detail how to set the camcorder to do this.
>
> However, the results do seem to be better if you downconvert from HDV
> on the computer rather than in the camera. Plus if you're going to a
> better output format than DV, you can theoretically get close to 10-bit
> 4:4:4 SD footage from downconvertedHDV (assuming no serious MPEG-2
> compression artifacts).
>
> Mark
>

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