Edius hdv image quality vs Vegas

[doumm]

Hey guys,

I own both Vegas 8 and Edius 5, my question is there maybe something I need to do so Edius looks as good as vegas, maybe it's that Vegas has a default slight Gaussian Blur that HDV from my JVC HD251 looks better.
I can't explain it, but the image quality is usually noisier and has more macroblocking in Edius or artefacts, not major ones, but it's noticable.
I've captured using the Edius HQ codec with HDV over firewire, maybe this is the issue as it's transcoding the m2t stream and there's a generational lost.
I presume therefore it's a better idea to just capture straight m2t ?
thanks in advance

 

[Tommy K]

I find your comments interesting because I am about to start editing HDV with Edius 5.1.1. I understand you can bring the footage in as m2t or HQ. I follow the Edius forum over at Grass Valley and I have never heard anyone complain about the quality of HDV footage with the HQ codec. I have read that either way there was no visible difference. You might want to go over there and ask.

http://ediusforum.grassvalley.com/forum/