[John Calder]

beenyweenies wrote:
“The simple truth is, even WITH the full release of AE you don’t want to be using MPEG-2 files. Performance in just about any app using MPEG-2 is absolutely horrible …”

Our camera originals are often MPEG-2. With HDV that is becoming more and more the case. I can understand your argument for low-compression and even no-compression video for OUTPUT back to the video editor, but my understanding is that it is valid for the INPUT to be in the camera original format. No matter how good any other codec is, surely there is going to be a significant time and disk cost in converting from the original format?