Erik Lindahl
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Apple doesn’t state “lossless HDV editing while using filters etc”. They say, which it true to HDV, DV and any other “lossy” format, that you edit the footage in it orignal codec, making “lossless editing” t/f the camera. However, as with any lossy codec, modifiying the image WILL give you a quality reduction (one generation loss). Staight cuts in FCP 5 should however keep the quality captured from tape.
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Standardsconversion in Compressor could be “huge” if speed/quality is good. The Optical Flow technology really seems to do wonders in Shake, so it “should” do wonders in Compressor too…
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1. HDV and MPEG2 editing… Will I in FCP 5 be able to edit native MPEG2 > MPEG2 “lossless”? That is if I stay to straight cuts and such. What MPEG2 formats would be supported? (VOB, .m2v etc).
2. Media Management – what has happend here? I thought we’d see a HUGE update here but can’t seem to find any info on this… iTunes style media-management would be appreciated.
3. Performance… The system requirments have more than doubled (350Mhz G4 to 867Mhz G4), does that mean perfomance on the same hardware might decrease? Or is the hight requirments just to represent the new features, and that Quartz Extreme-ready machines by apple I reckon started at 867mhz G4?
4. Multiple codecs in the same timeline… Can this be done in software now, or is Cinewave the only path to go?
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FCP 4.5 doens’t support MPEG2 editing at all
FCP 5.0 (just annaounced) MIGHT support .m2v editing. Time will tell.
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But HDV in FCP5 should be as “lossless” DV in earlier versions of FCP.
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But HDV in FCP5 should be as “lossless” DV in earlier versions of FCP.
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But HDV in FCP5 should be as “lossless” DV in earlier versions of FCP.
Stright-cut don’t do nothing to the quality (unless in has to do some re-encoiding whne it comes to mid i-frame editing).
Effects that EDIT the picture (other than straight cuts) WILL give you a generation loss.
The difference I can see betweeen FCP5:s HDV support and for instance FCE is that FCE converts the HDV/MPEG2 stream to an “intermediate codec” and the reencodes it to HDV/MPEG2. Here you ALWAYS got a generation loss what ever kind of editing you do.
Filmin HDV and editing that footage as Uncompressed HD would be something like filming with DV and editing that in Uncompressed SD. Going to uncompressed in the post-process helps ALOT when doing effects (grading or what ever) but puts strain on your system.