Re: newbie question

Thanks Bob, so a couple of things come to my mind, first of all I am not yet familiar with AE, what is meant by a 16bit project, would decompressing the native DV footage into SDI/4.2.2. (either via the DV playback deck or software) give the necessary colour space you talk about? By the way, I do understand the need to do any colour correction in a large colour space.
Then I am not certain about your comments on the delivery format, I have this understanding, from reading articles on Ken Stone's site, that all this decompression and recompression really messes up the the final image. What I was figuring was that suppplying the footage as a DV file, would be the least damaging visually. But please feel free to reducate me!!
Thanks again, If we can get the process understood at the theory stage then the practicalities become simple for us.
Rob Dunford