[Kdenlive-devel] Recommended intermediate video format?

[Ruslan Popov]

>Hi,
>
>Does anyone among the Kdenlive users can recommend an intermediate format
>for working with Kdenlive ?
>
>So far, I've been using VOB format (out of the camcorder), which is space
>efficient, but sometimes the non linear accesses yield somewhat 
>unsynchronised audio and video (bug in ffmpeg?). I've been using DV
>format, but its compression ratio is really hurting my harddisk space
>and I/O speed to read/write the files.
>
>So, what would you recommend, that would be:
>* space "efficient" (<100MiB/mn for PAL)
>* intra-frame compression only (for clean non linear access)
>* lossy but good quality (keep quality as further as possible)
>* not necessarily with a real-time engine, but preview should 
>  be acceptable on a >1GHz class CPU.
>* of course supported by kdenlive/MLT
>
>Is there any video container for JPEG-2000 out there?
>What are you people using?
>
>Thanks in advance

Just buy big HDD and don't worry about space.
For instance, in Russia 160GB disk costs $50us.
160GB disk allows you to keep about 10 miniDV cassettes on.
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