That’s definitely what I was going to recommend. I’m not running their post, I’m just freelance editing. Correct me if I’m wrong, but since the Varicam shoots and records to DVCPRO HD tapes, the inital content is already compressed 7:1, right? So what is there to gain by importing and working with a uncompressed codec? Especially since the final output is SD DVD. The quality is never going to be better than the original compressed image. If anything working in DVCPRO HD allows for a future HD DVD to be made, right?
Yeah I’m aware compressor can downconvert for encoding, but this is a big job, a 25,000+ discs, and compressor won’t be handling the MPEG2 compression, it will be done a replection house.
It seems like the best workflow is DVCPRO HD tape, imported DVCPRO HD codec, work in DVCPRO HD timeline, deliver DVCPRO HD master to be dubbed to Digibeta for the delivery…