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lemonade <lemonade@iceshop.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 04 May 2004 00:14:31 GMT, "nappy" <no_spam_@sorry.com>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>"lemonade" <lemonade@iceshop.com> wrote in message
>>news:qrld90lv99eccckl910gueat66iircdftm@4ax.com...
>>> When we use Premiere to capture video from a MiniDV tape, is the
>>> created avi file lossless and the best video quality possible?
>>
>>
>>if you captured via firewire DV then yes. With respect tot the data on the
>>tape it will be a 1:1 lossless transfer of data. The DV format itself is
>>5:1 compression but NO data is lost when transferring that thru firewire to
>>your hard disk.
>>
>Are codecs involved during the transfer? The codec should be a
>lossless one, right? Is it possible for me to find out what
>codec is used by Premiere?
The transfer from the MiniDV device to the computer is a data
transfer, it's not a transcode operation, so therefore it is a
lossless transfer. DV codec is however a lossy codec but _not_ in the
transfer process, only when you need to recode it. So if you do a cuts
only edit, you will not lose any quality as no recoding is done. If
you add effects, transitions, etc you will start to introduce loss.
It's pretty minimal though.
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Kevin Gleeson
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