What's a good intermediary format?

[sd_smoker]

I'm somewhat familiar with using VDub/AVISynth to work with DV files, but I'm in the process of figuring out how to use DGIndex to work with some VOB files. I will ultimately probably save them back to MPEG2 but I'd like to do that after cleaning and editing. My question is what should I save the files as when I run the AVISynth script via VDub that will best preserve quality and be the best for (minor) editing. I don't think any of the MPEG4 formats would be good choices so that pretty much leaves DV or huffyuv. Any suggestions?

[redwudz]

DV or HuffyUV would be my choices, depending on HDD space. Or you could try Lagarith Lossless Video Codec. But with the last two, the files will be huge.

Just to make your own choice, try a 5 minute representative clip and see which one works best for you. That will also give you an idea of the relative file space each one uses. I use DV most times as it's fairly universal and works well for me.

[sd_smoker]

I'm not sure if my editor will accept huffyuv or not(Ulead VS8), but I'll give them both a shot and see what happens. Thanks!

[Safesurfer]

ffdshow comes with a utility called makeAVIS that will create a dummy AVI file from an Avisynth script that you could then use to frameserve the script into your Ulead editor. This would enable you to dispense with an intermediate file. You can disable ffdshow decoding if you want to stick with your system codecs.