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lossless quicktime codec
I created a feature using Premiere CS3 on a PC with the Microsoft DV codec (NTSC original source – MiniDV). I am attempting to dub to digibeta and the post facility wants me to export the movie to quicktime so they can open it up in Final Cut. What is the best lossless codec to use in this situation (from Premiere CS3 on either a Mac or PC, I have both)? I could use the Animation codec, but this is 114 minutes of live action footage so the resulting file(s) would be huge. I’ve been researching other codecs and saw the Uncompressed YUV 8 and 10 bit codecs installed on my machine, but I have no idea what’s best. Any advice?
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Since the original format was DV, consider the QuickTime DV codec. Make sure to turn off recompress and for the most part you will be re-wrapping your avi into a QuickTime without any loss. File size will be a bit over 13GB per hour of material.
Any uncompressed codec will produce huge files. The YUV8 and 10 will probably be even bigger than the Animation codec output would be.
Dave
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Basically, if you did any color correction, you will need Animation.
You might be looking at 1 gig per minute, which really isn’t too bad.
Vince Becquiot
Director | EditorKaptis Studios
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The PNG codec is also lossless at 100% quality, but is compressed (compared to Animation), and typically saves some space. The Yuv codecs should be a bit smaller than Animation, as I think they are 4:2:2, hence throw away 1/2 the color resolution. However: digiBeta uses 10-bit 4:2:2 for recording, so that is the best “match” for your output. You could also use whatever (proprietary) codec they might be using with the video I/O hardware (AJA, Blackmagic, Matrox, etc.).
I’d do a clip test (include a bit of bars and other test patterns) with the facility with proprietary, Yuv 10-bit and PNG to compare file sizes, import ease, and check for gamma/level issues.-Jeff
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