Re: DV100 vs DNxHD vs CFHD

"I'm not saying that the hardware codec is better than the software codec, they're the same codec. But there is a different decoder happening in the Apple sofware than in a Panasonic deck. "

But you say that the hardware codec looks cleaner etc. etc. and hence it must be better, right, but above you're saying that the software codec is as good as the hardware codec.

I don't have a lot of DVCproHD footage on my system - only what clients have sent me so that I can develop plugins that work with it, but I've not seen the problems you mention other than inside FCP. I don't have a DVCproHD deck, and the whole idea of P2 is that I don't need one. I view my footage out of the Decklink HD card to SD monitor, DLP projector and 23" Cinema Display over SDI and HDLink and none of these methods of display show the artifacts that FCP does internally.

As I say, I've had the very same discussions over the DV codec - hardware v software, and I managed to prove to myself quite clearly that any differences are utterly negligible as I mentioned in an above post. If you can send me similar DVCProHD over Firewire v DVCpro over HD SDI footage, I'd be very happy to take a look and see if I can see what you are seeing and therefore be able to put my mind to work in trying to solve any problems with the firewire / Apple codec route if there are any. I've got a feeling, that anything you're seeing is probably due to scaling issues from 960 to 1280 or 1280 to 1920 that could be solved, in that FCP does pretty poor scaling and that the deck's SDI output does nice scaling.

Graeme



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