V6: Render HDV intermediate vs. avi

RalphM wrote on 4/11/2009, 11:08 AM

For ease of editing on my ancient P4, I rendered an HDV file as "HDV 1080-60i intermediate".

Is there any difference between the "intermediate" and what would have resulted if I had just chosen to render it as an avi file?

Thanks,
Ralph

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RalphM wrote on 4/13/2009, 4:49 AM

Hope you all enjoyed your Easter Day.
Just giving this a bump up to get some visibility.

Thanks,
Ralph

John_Cline wrote on 4/13/2009, 2:12 PM

You did render an AVI file.

An AVI is just a container, it can hold video encoded with one of any number of different codecs. In this case, the "HDV 1080-60i intermediate" template generates an AVI file using the Cineform codec.

To answer your specific question; Using the ""HDV 1080-60i intermediate" template is no different than if you had manually rendered a "custom" AVI file using the Cineform codec with the appropriate image size and frame rate.

RalphM wrote on 4/13/2009, 2:45 PM

Thank you John,

Since the Help file recommends rendering using the Cineform template, I had been wondering if there was some advantage versus just picking rendering as a VFW avi.... Sounds like there is no real advantage; I was afraid I was missing something...

Ralph