Isn’t the data transfered thru firewire exactly the same as recorded to tape (ie. 8bit 4:2:2 100mb/sec) ?
The SDI output of the camera/deck is just using the camera/decks internal codecs to make it ‘uncompressed’ isn’t it ? It is still being converted to 10 bit 4:4:4 isn’t it ?
Are you saying using FCP to go from 8bit to 10 bit is worse then the deck’s conversion ? I don’t see how importing thru firewire into an uncompressed timeline would be worse then importing SDI into the same timeline except for render times. How does it make it look worse ?
I’m just confused not confrontational. I’m still new to all this.