Deke Ryland
January 31st, 2007, 07:22 AM
Hey guys... I am desperately seeking some help and guidance on this question I have about editing HDV that I just can't seem to find a detailed explanation of.
I just bought a Canon XH A1 HDV camcorder and I have Premiere Pro 2.0 and AE7. I also have a quad-core editing workstation with 4 GB RAM.
I keep hearing people suggest that heavily editing native HDV (mpeg) in an application like PP2.0 will cause the video to degrade over the multiple generations of renders... is this correct? So what you are saying is, if I pull the untouched mpeg file natively into the timeline, perform some color correction, render a preview, then perform some transitions, titles, cuts, etc, then do another render preview... then save the project, my movie I created has lost resolution/quality over each step I mentioned? I thought PP2.0 made special "video preview" files that kept the original source footage untouched?
And what happens if I go out and shoot a whole bunch of stock footage (quick clips) of various things and want to come home and razor up that footage in the timeline into smaller individual clips, then save each individual clip to their own mpeg file? Do I lose quality by doing this?
And lastly... I have been reading on here all about Cineform AspectHD, and if possible, I'd rather edit natively since my computer can most definitely handle the heavy intensive processing, but if the major issue here is quality of picture and degradation of quality of picture, then there is no way I would sacrifice quality for $500 bucks.
I appreciate any help or guidance on this matter, thanks so much for any light you can shed on this for me.
I just bought a Canon XH A1 HDV camcorder and I have Premiere Pro 2.0 and AE7. I also have a quad-core editing workstation with 4 GB RAM.
I keep hearing people suggest that heavily editing native HDV (mpeg) in an application like PP2.0 will cause the video to degrade over the multiple generations of renders... is this correct? So what you are saying is, if I pull the untouched mpeg file natively into the timeline, perform some color correction, render a preview, then perform some transitions, titles, cuts, etc, then do another render preview... then save the project, my movie I created has lost resolution/quality over each step I mentioned? I thought PP2.0 made special "video preview" files that kept the original source footage untouched?
And what happens if I go out and shoot a whole bunch of stock footage (quick clips) of various things and want to come home and razor up that footage in the timeline into smaller individual clips, then save each individual clip to their own mpeg file? Do I lose quality by doing this?
And lastly... I have been reading on here all about Cineform AspectHD, and if possible, I'd rather edit natively since my computer can most definitely handle the heavy intensive processing, but if the major issue here is quality of picture and degradation of quality of picture, then there is no way I would sacrifice quality for $500 bucks.
I appreciate any help or guidance on this matter, thanks so much for any light you can shed on this for me.