I have a Pinnacle DC10+ capture card which uses their proprietary MJPEG codec. If I have two AVIs (roughly 20 minutes each) and I bring them into Vegas and all I do is create a crossfade to bring the two clips together and render them as one clip, does the whole file have to be recompressed or does just the crossfade get recompressed?
If it recompresses the whole thing then essentially the unedited parts of my AVIs are losing quality needlessly because they are being compressed twice, right? (This is assuming that I am rendering to the same MJPEG codec.)
If this is true, then my only option to avoid the recompression would be to render to a totally uncompressed AVI, right? I don't see this as a viable option because the file sizes would become enormous!
My ultimate goal is to take old VHS family videos, capture them, make home movies and eventually turn them into VideoCDs which I can watch in my DVD player. (I'd like to keep as much of the resolution from the VHS tapes as possible because they are 10-15 years old and I want to get them archived digitally before the tapes degrade too much. These tapes may not last to the time when DVD burners and Terrabyte harddrives are commonplace and allow working with uncompressed AVIs.)
If these are stupid questions I apologize, but I am brand new at this video stuff and trying to learn as fast as I can.
If it recompresses the whole thing then essentially the unedited parts of my AVIs are losing quality needlessly because they are being compressed twice, right? (This is assuming that I am rendering to the same MJPEG codec.)
If this is true, then my only option to avoid the recompression would be to render to a totally uncompressed AVI, right? I don't see this as a viable option because the file sizes would become enormous!
My ultimate goal is to take old VHS family videos, capture them, make home movies and eventually turn them into VideoCDs which I can watch in my DVD player. (I'd like to keep as much of the resolution from the VHS tapes as possible because they are 10-15 years old and I want to get them archived digitally before the tapes degrade too much. These tapes may not last to the time when DVD burners and Terrabyte harddrives are commonplace and allow working with uncompressed AVIs.)
If these are stupid questions I apologize, but I am brand new at this video stuff and trying to learn as fast as I can.