Re: Evan Schechtman @RadicalMedia - The State of the NLE - recorded a few days before NAB

[Steve Connor] "Ok, that makes sense, does the quality hold up well when you re-encode them back for release"

Surprisingly well, depending on the source material and the encoder. Compressor does a pretty bad good job with film grain or noise present so we don't use it for avc encoding; there's also no segment based reencoding plus it's slow as it doesn't allow clustering for avc coding. It's usually avc to dnxhd, cineform (soon probably Canopus HQX) or DPX if there is image cleanup involved and then off to reencoding. Bit crazy, I know, would be a lot easier from the original tape.

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