John,
I finally got an uncompressed AVI file to work, and it looks great, as the post house wanted an uncompressed file.
I was under the impression that uncompressed files yielded the best quality and that digibeta was a virtually lossless format in that if it were to be output uncompressed it would end up being a 4:2:2 color stream instead of 4:2:1 of DV. Am I wrong about this, or is a true uncompressed file created on intake through SDI? And if wrong, is there any benefit to uncompressing DV, or even HDV for that matter?
I guess I just have this idea in my head that if you shot something compressed (as in DV), if you uncompressed it you would get the best quality..
-Adam