Re: Quality loss and bitrates

Wow! Ok. This commercial stuff is mostly above my aims or station. :) My camera is "prosumer": Panasonic HDC HS700. So yeah it's pretty good, as your consumer stuff goes, but big zoom and small chips etc. It puts out about 35mBPS AVCHD. I do have an HD -capable DSLR, but for everyday shooting it has versatility problems AFAIAC.

I do realise that it's better to keep the number of renders to a minimum. It's just that so often it seems that you need to export a rendered version to allow work that cannot be done "here". Mind you, that is where AVID's DNxHD uncompressed pops up, I guess.

I will look into all you say, make no mistake! Your first paragraph is very interesting. The idea of getting everything into the I-frame format is new to me and I am going to follow up.

So. Food for thought and thanks.

Nick