G5 with PCI-X alot better than standard PCI?

[Zolotroph]

[Erik Lindahl] “Doing my offline in DV, converting the final edit to uncompressed and then do online in uncompressed 8- or 10-bit does give a better final result. “

I concur. While you can’t improve the initial DV footage by dropping it into an uncompressed timeline, any elements that are added to the project (graphics, titles, etc.), or any color correction or filtering that is performed on the material will definitely benefit from the lack of subsequent DV compression. When encoding MPEG2 video, uncompressed source material yeilds visibly better results than DV-compressed source material.

-zolo

[Erik Lindahl]

Exactly. Since most, if not all, projects go through this process it’s a win-win situation. It does of course vary on what the footage is and what you do to it. I just did a test on the last projekt I did and here the difference wasn’t as great as the tests I did for a film last year. This, however, had very “calm” (greyish-blue) colours which are quite DV-friendly.

Sad I cant post pics here.

[Zolotroph]

For a real eye-opener, create a bright red circle on a grey or black background. Drop it into both an uncompressed and a DV timeline, render a 5-second clip of each, and compare the output. Next, take those two files and compress them to MPEG2. Shocking.

-zolo