when is it a good time to edit?

[az3ar]

i haven't started the editing process,.. so excuse my newbie question,...

when is it better to do the movie editing, in the original captured formate (DV) or in the final format (mpeg2)?

Many thanks


Az3ar :D

[Craig Tucker]

Edit in the original captured format

Craig

[az3ar]

noted,.. but why?
and wouldnt demand a huge processing power?

thanks


Az3ar

[Anonymous65]

You cannot frame-edit an mpeg file without re-encoding the file, a time consuming and quality degrading process.

[You_Are_Alive]

Skittelsen, are you sure you can't. I have the DC1000, and I can frame accurately edit the mp2 file with its audio with no re-encoding. I think that also applies to DV500 and RT2500. As long as the mpeg2 file is captured into its elementry streams and not muxed together.

Quality is not affected in this case, it depends on your capture settings and how high you set the data rate. Here's an important hint I read somewhere about motion estimation quality settings: if capturing with low data rates, change your GOP structure to include as many P frames in between your I and B frames, like 6 to 10 P frames usually gets you better looking video. If still not satisfied with quality, then increase your data rate.

[homerpez]

I personally prefer 9:00PM as a good time to edit.

I have to second (third)? The idea on editing in the capture format... or better.

Uncompressed AVI (and/or Huffy) is the best option, as you'll lose none of the quality from the original to the edited clip. And, this is more intense on hard drive space than CPU power I would say... it's even not usually too painful in the SLOW Adobe Premiere...

You never want to edit MPEG if you can help it, as you have to re-encode afterwards from an already lossy format.