I couldn’t figure out how debugmode.com figures in but it seems that Adobe has distanced them selves from Apple QT and any license fees that they might have incurred.
So what they give you is the ability to copy unrendered sections of the timeline into a new file so you limit recompression. Just uncheck Recompress Always in Video Preferences.
I tried importing QT into PPro, and there is a compression hit as well as a gamma shift (seen in After Effects difference mode). But it would be interesting to see if QT Pro could import the DV AVI and not require recompression.
Has anyone tried this?
-j