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does FinalCut re-compress it?
by Nicola Di Pietro on Sep 30, 2008 at 7:31:26 pm

Hello!

I have a Final Cut Studio 2 HDV project (JVC HD100E HDV camcorder shootings + effects and other tracks).
I captured the shootings through camcorder's firewire connection, so the HDV files are compressed just once (in the Mini HDV videotape).

Now I need to convert the about 5 min. video to a AVCHD format DVD.

So I'd like use this procedure:

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic346069.html

But I need just an m2t file. This is my question:

Is Final Cut able to make all the project/tracks as a single m2t file WITHOUT re-compress it?

Thank you.

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Re: does FinalCut re-compress it?
by Michael Sacci on Sep 30, 2008 at 7:35:59 pm

Every time you change the codec you are doing through a compression phase.

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Re: I will not change codec
by Nicola Di Pietro on Sep 30, 2008 at 7:45:29 pm

I will not change the codec, always HDV;

The difference is that now I have several HDV shootings + several effect final cut tracks; at the end I'll have just 1 HDV video file.

So I fear that it re-compress all, but the codec is the same that I use while editing.

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Re: I will not change codec
by Michael Sacci on Sep 30, 2008 at 11:28:26 pm

Any place you add transitions, effect or filters will get re-compressed. This is the case with all codec but this is why codecs with heavy compression are not the first choice of many.

But before you worry to much about it you should make a test encode and see if the quality is acceptable to you and your client.

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Re: I will not change codec
by Sean ONeil on Oct 1, 2008 at 6:03:07 am

The process you're looking for is called "re-wrapping" - you want to re-wrap the HDV codec from Quicktime to m2t. Cineform has a tool that can do this, but I think it only does QT to avi (not m2t) but there may be some Windows tool that does avi to m2t.

There's another tool (forgot the name) that's new and supports m2t - but it only works with MPEG2, not AVCHD.

Sean

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Re: I will not change codec
by Nicola Di Pietro on Oct 1, 2008 at 2:20:19 pm

Ok thank you all... I'll see what I'll be able to do...

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