am I missing something - Dester Wallaboo

DV is LOSSY!... meaning... you LOSE image quality... it compresses in multiple ways to keep data rates down... thus DV is 4:1:1.. not native 4:4:4 color space. Every compression gets worse and worse.... compressing at 5:1 PLUS color space to 4:1:1. If you want EXACT color space and zero artifacting.... Sheer is it... plus, it creates files that are typically 50% the size of the Animation codec. It can also support true 10-bit per channel color space, something Animation doesn't support... nor DV. In comparison to other formats such as DigiBeta, DVCPRO5, D9, and especially D5... DV pales in comparison. I personally can hardly stand using DV because of it's horrendous lack of color space. DV is barely passable as a broadcast standard being left primarily to news gathering (where quality is the least concern), small business/corporate projects or when size of the camera and weight becomes an issue (such as backpacking deep into the Amazon jungle).

I would never take an animation I've created and render out in DV codec... unless that was the final delivery method... but I would only create the DV codec version from a Sheer codec master anyway. I want one 100% pure master around all of the time.

Sheer also compresses in real-time... unlike the Microcosm codec which compresses at like 1/4 real-time.

Sheer is the pinnacle of codecs for media professionals.

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Wednesday, March 09 2005 @ 04:12 PM PST