Okay, I captured a Digital 8 tape. It's all nicely chopped up into clips. I bring them in to VF2. I trim the clips as I want them using the Split feature. I make sure there are no transitions, effects, etc. I nudge all events that are going to end up being crossfaded two clicks, and all events that will fade out and then fade in 20 clicks (so I can tell them apart). I print to tape (but actually just save to disk and don't record to tape). Now I have one 6 GB clip with all the material I actually want, instead of many clips totalling 12 GB. I then get rid of the original clips, and I've just gotten a lot of disk space back.
Now I bring the new clip into a new VF2 project and it is now one big event. There are black frames where I left space between the original events. I would expect this. What I did not expect was one frame with 50% transparency between each event (or rather what used to be discreet events). So now I'm wondering whether the entire thing was re-rendered and re-compressed and whether my new clip has suffered degradation.
Question Summary -- You have project with multiple events, no effects, no transitions. There is some "space" between each event. When you render to DV format, will this blank space cause degradation throughout the entire destination file?
-Jeremy
Now I bring the new clip into a new VF2 project and it is now one big event. There are black frames where I left space between the original events. I would expect this. What I did not expect was one frame with 50% transparency between each event (or rather what used to be discreet events). So now I'm wondering whether the entire thing was re-rendered and re-compressed and whether my new clip has suffered degradation.
Question Summary -- You have project with multiple events, no effects, no transitions. There is some "space" between each event. When you render to DV format, will this blank space cause degradation throughout the entire destination file?
-Jeremy