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    Avid Codec for FX work (HDCAM)

    Posted by Van Royko on February 28, 2011 at 12:32 am

    Hi

    I’m about to embark on the on-line/effects portion of a very independent film of my own. Everything was shot on a HDCAM (Sony F-900). Most of the FX work will be in After Effects. Seeing as HDCAM is already pretty compressed with a bandwidth of 144Mb/s I am wondering if there is any reason to capture the material uncompressed. Should the DNXHD codec with bandwidth above 144Mb/s be essentially enough and not lose anything?

    Thanks in advance

    Jeff Greenberg replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Jeff Greenberg

    February 28, 2011 at 11:58 am

    [Van Royko] “Should the DNXHD codec with bandwidth above 144Mb/s be essentially enough and not lose anything?
    “
    Yes, if you go in at DNxHD 220, you should be fine. Generally, if you move up in bandwidth with editorial codecs, you shouldn’t have any real lossage. Will there be some? Absolutely. Significant? Probably not. I might suggest pushing one clip through first, especially if you’re intending to chromakey, but generally, you’ll be fine.

    Best,

    Jeff G

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