dv in premiere

[actionman133]

when you export your movie in premiere that is being edited in dv, is it actually recompressed, or just doing a direct stream copy, like virtualdub? i know dv doesn't cause much loss in recompression anyway, but i just like to maintain as much quality as possible. because, if it is recompressed, then the only 'lossless' solution is to export the final product back to the camera via firewire and then re-capture it. which should be an uneccessary process.

anybody know the answer to that one?

thanks

[nicco]

I'm quite sure that when you export your project in DV premiere recompresses it. It's not so lossy but it's not lossless!
I red that if you unceck "recompress" in export options premiere recompresses only the scenes which need to be rendered,making a "direct stream copy" of the rest of the movie, but I'm not sure of that.
But why to risk? You simply can export a lossless final version of your project using Huffyuv (it can export in YUY2)!;)

[actionman133]

the thing with HuffYUV is that its losslessness causes even larger files than dv.

and i run premiere 6 beta version... does that hold support for YUY2? i thought it only supported RGB and the premiere pro had yuv support.

but i'll check out the 'recompress' option. thanks for the tip.

ps... i didn't say dv was lossless. i just said its not very lossy. it keeps a lot of the original quality (but not all! which is why im asking this to begin with ) :cool:. when you capture back to a camcorder via firewire, premiere doesn't have time to recompress. it can only send it through the port and the camcorder just tapes it. then, when you play it back, you have a lossless version of your video (assuming no effects). thats where i mentioned the lossless. hope that cleared it up...

[hendrix]

Originally posted by actionman133
and i run premiere 6 beta version... does that hold support for YUY2? i thought it only supported RGB and the premiere pro had yuv support.

premiere 6 = RGB colorspace
premiere pro = AYUV colorspace

[actionman133]

gotcha!

thanks

[nicco]

You can frameserve from premiere, for ex with pluginpack frameserve