capturing with HDV Split versus capturing in Avid Media Composer at DVinfo.net

Sean Worsell · December 11th, 2007, 07:39 PM

I love how HDVSplit automatically creates separate m2t files on separate scenes.

Avid doesn't do this.

But is there a downside to HDVSplit m2t versus using Avid to capture the m2t footage? I mean, is there better color depth or something (8 bit vs. 10 bit) when capturing using firewire into Avid or into HDVSplit?

Jack Zhang · December 12th, 2007, 08:44 PM

Color depth won't change no matter what you capture to. HDVsplit might produce less stable files if your editor isn't crash resistant. First time I tried it on Vegas I got a crash trying to edit certain files, and it oddly crashes on the exact same files.

December 11th, 2007, 07:39 PM	#1
Sean Worsell New Boot Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto Posts: 15	capturing with HDV Split versus capturing in Avid Media Composer I love how HDVSplit automatically creates separate m2t files on separate scenes. Avid doesn't do this. But is there a downside to HDVSplit m2t versus using Avid to capture the m2t footage? I mean, is there better color depth or something (8 bit vs. 10 bit) when capturing using firewire into Avid or into HDVSplit?

December 12th, 2007, 08:44 PM	#2
Jack Zhang Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada Posts: 3,053	Color depth won't change no matter what you capture to. HDVsplit might produce less stable files if your editor isn't crash resistant. First time I tried it on Vegas I got a crash trying to edit certain files, and it oddly crashes on the exact same files.