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

[Frank Gothmann] "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."

Thanks, it's good to know that it holds up well, we have a number of projects over the last couple of years where Blu-rays are the only masters we now have.

Steve Connor
"FCPX Professional"
Adrenalin Television