Which codec for lossless compressed output?

[Pascal Parvex]

I use In-Sync Blade 2.2 (and no, I don't have the money to change to another software). I would like to output my DVX footage lossless, with no generation loss. Blade supports the DVX' 2:3:3:2 pulldown natively, but this does not work for me, because the program is buggy, or I don't know how to handle it.

But what does work is output to HD with BOXX technology, TGA stills and 'Multimedia AVI'. With the latter I can choose a lot of codecs, like 'Canopus DV Codec for Booster Pack', Huffyuv, Microsoft whatever, and so on. So, apart from uncompressed, which codec can I choose to output lossless but compressed ? And what color space, what frame rate? 23.976? And so on.

 

[krestofre]

Out of that list Huffyuv is the only lossless codec. It's a pretty decent one too, so there should be no trouble there.

I'm not familiar with Blade, so if it removed the pulldown on capture then you would use a framerate of 23.976 (sometimes listed as 23.98 or 23.97 depending on the software).

Hope that helps.

Chris

 

[Pascal Parvex]

Out of that list Huffyuv is the only lossless codec. It's a pretty decent one too, so there should be no trouble there.

Hope that helps.

Chris

Thank you, that did help. The video is now also recognized as progressive with 23.98 frames per second when I import it to Canopus ProCoder.

But I'm open for more suggestions, here is the complete list of available codecs in Blade, 'Multimedia AVI':

And Blade does not touch imported footage. But for the DVX, you can switch to 'DV Cinema', so only the progressive images are shown on the timeline.