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A few questions. First of all, thanks for the input and please forgive my lack of knowledge as I get up to speed on these things. How time consuming is the transcoding process? Lets assume I am going from the mpeg-2 format of the XF-105 to ProRes. Do I lose quality (appreciably) during the transcoding process? So, would I have better quality if I beefed up my editing rig to work directly with the native format of my camera as opposed to transcoding to ProRes? How much machine (Currently, I have an i7 w/ 6g of ram and an nvidia gts250 with 1g of memory, I'm going to look into automatically including these specs in my posts like some of you do) would I need to work with the native format in an 'efficient way'?
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@ozsteam - What do you mean by 'gain editability'? Are we talking strictly about speed, or do I gain or lose edit functionality depending on the format I am using? Thnx again, really looking forward to playing with LightWorks.
MPEG 2 (like AVCHD) is a inter-frame acquisition/delivery codec. It uses a type of very clever video compression where some frames are predicted from earlier or subsequent frames.
This is ideal for acquiring footage in cameras or for delivery formats for the Web, DVD or BD because the prediction means that the video is highly compressed. But when it comes to editing, all that complex prediction of frames from other frames makes the CPU have to work a lot harder to edit it. It can be done if you have enough CPU power, a fast SSD system drive, 10,000 rpm media storage HDD (and and i7 is pretty good CPU so you should be OK).
BTW, note the article on RedShark News about a 1TB SSD drive that costs a 'mere' $600 so it won't be long now before we will able to use fast SSD drives as media storage drives too. Transcoding to ProRes converts the MPEG 2 inter-frame prediction codec to an 'intermediate' or editing intra-frame codec where every frame is complete without prediction from other frames.
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That makes editing much easier on system resources. The file sizes are much bigger though. And transcoding does take time so its best done while you do something else. MPEG 2 and ProRes are both not lossless. So there will be some sort of loss of data during the transcode process.
The question is: Is it visually lossless-is there any noticeable loss of visual quality? Others on this forum are more qualified than I am to comment on this.
All I can say is that ProRes (like DNxHD) is a professional codec-both are industry standard intermediate codecs-and my guess it will be pretty good at minimising loss of quality. See this Wikipedia article about. Quality loss can also be minimised by exporting an uncompressed (YUVY) master when the editing is done.
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