1) the material is not going through a lossy intermediate format. DV is
good but it's still lossy. Avoiding it results in a better overall
result - less artifacting, lower bitrate for the same quality.
Hm, that doesn't sound good. So I can't save my DV clips without
reencoding? So, lets say I have grabbed from miniDV camcorder, cut and
pasted the recording, and finally had some clips which are ready to use.
So I shuffle them in the right order making the final video, adding
transitions and so on. Now it is ready to burn DVD, but I'd like also to
export this modified stuff (clips at least) to DV to have the same
(original quality) material. Is it possible not to loose the quality of
material compared to the one the tape?
That's the video side of things. For audio I usually deal with outside of
Cinelerra. Ardour usually gets the gig most of the time since the mixdown
usually involves a multitrack source, and Ardour's multitract audio features
are more extensive than cinelerra's. Therefore I render the audio from
Cinelerra as a WAV file which I then import into Ardour to use as a guide
track. The mixdown happens, is rendered to WAV and finally encoded for DVD
using (up to now) toolame. I'm thinking of moving to AAC soon though, but
this will simply entail a change of encoder and isn't going to alter the
workflow all that much.
Hm, thats a lot of work in this workflow. So it must be very time
consuming? I whish to have one intuitive tool to make it more productive
(in time domain). I wonder how could it be possible to integrate (well,
maybe better: to make them cooperate better) cinelerra and ardour
together. One click in the cinelerra, and the sound track is in the
ardour, process, click and hopla, in the cinelerra again. Hm....
This is a pitty, that such programs are not 'aware' of each other. Once
upon a time there was an Amiga with its fine ARREX and 99% of the
programs utilised its strength to cooperate. When one util was weak in
some aspect, it simply called other one more specialized in this
particular task and was given back the result. Well, it is sad that it
is only history in computing now.
Regards
Piotr L.
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