Thanks Steve for clearing the whole thing up. I generally only edit the top and tail of the footage if at all, so a flash based h.264 camcorder makes sense. Having a HD camera in my bag everyday has been handy sometimes. --------
BBC R&D did some work on this a few years back - here's a white paper from 2006, for example, if anyone's interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp138.shtml The basic finding was more or less what Jeremy said - that long-GOP video encoding makes life harder for the people who write video editing software, but doesn't make frame-accurate editing impossible by any means. You have to trade the advantages and disadvantages of recording with a long-GOP codec according to circumstances - a state of affairs that will probably surprise nobody. :-) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
