What is the highest Quality codec

[dmbware41]

I am exporting out of studio 8 and I need to know which codec I should use if I am going to end up copnverting with tmpegnc... I use to use something called huvy or smothing like that but I cannot find it anywhere..

[Yirkin]

There is a link to huffy in the tools section of this web site, but I will paste it here for you.

http://shelob.mordor.net/dgraft/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html

Howard

[Poplar]

Highest quality means lossless. Uncompressed is lossless, so is HuffYUV. Can't believe you couldn't find it. It's everywhere. Just google it.

[dmbware41]

Thank You The reason why I couldnt find it is because I was searching for huvy

[dmbware41]

Also does this work in XP?

[Donny661]

it should. there might be a separate dll on the huffyuv website. also, i think it answers that question there too in a faq.

[vhelp]

oops..

But, don't forget, that the "highest quality" you can obtain in an encode
will reflect YOUR source.

If your source is noisy, the highest quality you will get, will be including
the noise.. not inluding any "filtering", because that would mean you would
loose the "highest quality" mark. ..unless you mean "highest quality"
AFTER
the filtering. Well, you get the picture.

Now, the highest quality you can get will be dependant upon HOW you
obtain your source. Lets assume you are "capturing"
Then, about the highest quality you can get will be based on how you setup
but you would capture as:

* highest resolution (usually means 720x480)
* uncompressed capture w/out any codecs (huge hd needed)
* no filtering
* optional, as a final - no frameloss or synching issues

-vhelp

[txpharoah]

HuffyUV lossless?
Well, the jury's still out on that one.

RAW "uncompressed" data is "uncompressed", and "uncompressed" is the best, although by it's very nature, any kind of digitizing of anything is compression to some degree and mutation of the content in some form.

Your original whatever-it-is will be the most perfect. Copies always lose something, although you may or many not see it. Our job is to make sure the loss is minimal.

MPEG2 is pretty high quality at max settings, as is HDTV. But even then, they all have drawbacks.