Re: Does (cropped sensor) DSLR offer better image than 1/3" chip camcorder, in general?

[Vic Noseworthy] "is the codec in one camera better than the codec in the other?"
Looking on paper, I'm not sure - but my feeling is that they are close in bit rate and - and certainly the same MPEG-4/4:2:0. So codec wise they are probably similar.
In terms of compositing with these formats/codecs. For us we always transcode the files to another format (ProRes/DnxHD/Cineform) for compositing workflow. Even when we edit natively in Premiere, we still transcode to a different format for After Effects for compositing. That is our workflow and it has been solid for us.