So, I'm a very infrequent video editor. I do about 2 major projects a year, and have been doing them for many years. I've been filming in HD since the FX1 first came out, and due to all the performance issues had been first converting to Cineform format, and editing in that.

Upon purchase on V8, I decided to give editing in native M2T a try, and was pleased at how well it worked (compraed to the last time I gave it a shot). However, for my second project last year, I always rendered my progress renders as well as my "finished ultimate quality copy" in Cineform AVI format, since it looked good and was way faster than something like WMV.

The only thing is, I had noticed on the verson of Cineform I've been using (which was the last available version I could get without paying for it a THIRD time) that on some scenes I would get some occasional white flickering lines on the top of the screen when played back at full 1080i. Being a perfectionist (I always render in "best") this bugged me, but I'm not sure if they're encoded that way or are a playback artifact.

So for my first project this year (which is quite a bit later than it usually is) I decided to try rending in 1080i M2T format. I had heard about problems with the no-recompress option, but left it on... and was amazed to see it finished full resolution with *perfect* quality in a mere 18 minutes, while my trial Cineform render the day before took 45 minutes (and had the flashing lines again... grrr).

Now if only my WMV encodes wouldn't take hours to finish!