MiniDV tape Lossless Transfer?

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Fidelio

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Hello,

I have been taking videos and editing them on my computer for some time now, and I have always trusted that the capturing process was as flawless, simple and lossless as a DV AVI capture through Adobe Premiere Pro.

However, recently I have been reading more in depth about the AVI "container" and discovering that it might not be the "straight, lossless" transfer that I had assumed it was.

My question is, is capturing a MiniDV tape through FireWire to an NLE like Premiere the best (and closest to "lossless", if not actually) way to digitizing content? Or is there a better, perhaps truly lossless solution?
 
The output stream is a file transfer, as DV compressed footage is already stored on the MiniDV tape. My understanding is that the compression only takes place there; you can uncompress I suppose, but you'll just be making a bigger file, not getting more data. And DV AVI is incredible quality, so I dont' see any reason to worry about it on most projects.
 
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