FCP 5 native “lossless” HDV editing? – Part Two

[Christopher S. johnson]

——————————————–
QUOTE: mpjstuff

So when I hear that Apple is saying; “Lossless HDV editing”, I surmise that this means, I am getting the same results as if I converted the HDV to an uncompressed format, added filters and such and whatever else, and then exported. I think that is definitely possible. You might SEE artifacts in the timeline while you edit, but when you render out the file, it will render from the original.
——————————————-

If you’re speaking of rendering FX and filters in an HDV codec timeline, and exporting back to HDV tape, then you are definitely not getting anywhere near the quality of going to uncompressed. The video will be compressed by MPEG2 two times; once in the camera and once in the timeline. In fact, you might have to even call it an “offline” edit. I think, for FCP, a DVCPRO HD, or uncompressed are your only safe professional options to edit in.

-Christopher

[Ken Hon]

Aloha Roman,

I guess that’s good news (no chroma shift due to colorspace changes) and bad news you need to post in uncompressed to keep from causing banding. I’m hoping that maybe Avid’s codec might be able to handle this. Too bad for cheap guys like me that Sony is keeping their HDCAM codec to themselves, though maybe it has these problems too.

Ken