• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  exporting DV movie

  Posted by Ian Haig on March 6, 2010 at 8:25 pm

  Hi,
  how many times can you export a DV movie using DV compression and importing it again and exporting it again from FCP before you see a loss of quality ?
  thanks
  ian

  David Roth weiss replied 16 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  David Roth weiss

  March 6, 2010 at 10:18 pm

  If you have text and graphics in your piece you can’t even export it once without significantly degrading them. The degradation is not as noticeable with moving video, but it’s there nonetheless.

  DV is 5:1 compression, and it operates in 4:1:1 color space, so massive amounts of information are thrown away on every render and with every generation lost.

  The secret is, when you’re done editing, go to Sequence>>Settings and change the compressor to DV50 or 8-bit uncompressed and then re-render. that will minimize your compression hit and preserve text and graphics.

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