RE: Cinepak, Sorenson, and MPEG are lossy...

Ross Jones (RJones@fullerton.edu)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:09:09 -0700

>Cinepak, Sorenson, and MPEG are lossy, compressed content DELIVERY
>formats. They are very small, but for that reason they are not suitable
>for editing. You should edit your clip in a EDITABLE format like
>Motion-JPEG or the Media 100 QuickTime codec and only dump to a
>compressed delivery format like MPEG as the last step in the process.
>MPEG cannot be edited, so you would have to make any changes in your
>Media 100 and then re-encoder to MPEG.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris O'Leary
>V.P. of Marketing
>Heuris

Hey Chris any take on whether DV Frame Mode will transcode any better?
What is the general consensus on sending DV out to MPEG encoders? Looks?

Thanks,

Ross