Render to new track

MarkFoley wrote on 12/13/2004, 2:26 AM

When I want to render to a new track to better manage a timeline for example, should I use the uncompressed or NTSC DV? I'm wondering if I have errored in my workflow using the NTSC DV template.... Is uncompressed 4:4:4 and NTSC DV 4:4:1?
Thanks in advance....

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Chienworks wrote on 12/13/2004, 3:31 AM

If your original source material is DV (a very likely assumption) then there is no reason to use uncompressed. Even if your source material is uncompressed, SONY's DV codec is very very good and you will very rarely ever notice any loss. The only time i would worry about using uncompressed is if there are areas of very strong color contrasts, such as using a strong red font on a blue background. Normal photographic images are barely affected at all by DV compression.

MarkFoley wrote on 12/13/2004, 3:48 AM

Thanks Chien....
This is what I thought...but wanted to confirm this.....

farss wrote on 12/13/2004, 3:54 AM

The only other time you need to use uncompressed is if you need the alpha channel.
If you want something better than DV withour the huge files size I think there's also avaialable the Sony YUV codec which is 4:2:2.
But as has been said if your source is DV there's little to be gained unless it's generated media or HDV source.

Bob.