[Mike Most — account bouncing, bad address]

>>>We tried using the Animation Codec but the files seem to large and unwieldy to work with.

Sorry, but that’s the reality of actual high definition video. If you want to retain quality through the visual effects process, you can’t use compressed files. If the animation compressed files are “too large and unwieldy,” you need to have the visual effects company get bigger hard drives, more memory, and faster PC’s, just like those of us who work professionally with HD had to do.

The fact is that a high definition frame is 6 times as large as a standard definition frame. Pretending that they’re the same thing, as HDV tries to do, doesn’t change that fact when quality needs to be maintained.