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Going from DV to DV without recompressing
Hi all!
I wasn’t sure which forum this belonged but I guess it’s relevant for both PP and Mediaencoder so I posted in booth.
I have found myself editing an old 4:3 DV Pal and added some minor color correction in PP.
Now, If I want to export that graded movie and choose DV pal in Mediaencoder, will it recompress that DV file yet again?
And if all I did was edit the material without adding any effects at all is the right workflow to export the finished edit to DV Pal or again, will it recompress that media?
I come from Final Cut and In the export dialog you can choose NOT to do a recompress.
/Husse -
4 Replies
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I believe that if you edit DV natively (in a sequence matching the video files) and don’t apply any effects, a dv avi can be exported which is identical in quality – so no further compression takes place. I believe that if you apply effects like saturation etc, the files will be recompressed again before export. To a laypersons’s eyes the quality drop might not be noticeable.
In my experience editing SD miniDV footage with minor color correction, the exported DV avis would be noticeably better than an exported DVD Mpeg2 file of the same.
DV avi may suit you fine to master your SD project to, but some might recommend a much larger file/codec to avoid a-recompression-quality-drop.
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The only way DV is not reencoded is if nothing is changed.
If something is changed, DV is re-encoded.
Alex
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That was what I expected, thank’s for your answer!
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Thank’s!
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