FCP to Shake Codec

[escozooz]

I have just setup my G5 so FCP5 can send directly to Shake4.

I did some testing and FCP sends the .mov as DVCPRO. Should I reset this to uncompressed?

Going from FCP to Shake to FCP is 2 re-encodes, or is this codec able to handle this without any data loss?

thanks.

 

[tigeba]

I have been toying with this myself a bit. I have been using uncompressed.

 

[stevesherrick]

What codec are you editing in? DVCPRO, uncompressed?

 

[escozooz]

I am editing in a DVCpro timeline, can I edit in uncopmressed? I figure DVCpro is fine, I'm not going to film anytime soon.

I tried some tests with dvcPro to AE and back and it looked okay, but there must be some compression artifacts.

I also tried uncompressed to AE and its messed up the picture a little bit. I'm just using the DVCpro and trying no to recompress more than once.

Any other help would be cool.