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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
I use a custom built Core i7 workstation running Vista 64-bit as my main video editing & encoding machine nowadays with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, the Cineform plugin Prospect HD ver. 4 and some other apps for video compression.
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I'm thinking my next purchase might be the Sony EX3. The picture from my current AVCHD camera looks fantastic when transcoding from AVCHD to MPEG-2, BUT when I'm editing in MPEG-2, and then outputting AGAIN in MPEG-2, (and tweaking the brightness and contrast slightly) the image is getting slightly degraded. I believe the XDCAM format can be edited natively so I am not having to transcode from one format to another in order to avoid a transcoding step.
Also, I believe it does 4:2:2 which apparently gives a little more headroom than 4:2:0 for tweaking the image a bit.