Content Formats and encoding.

[peppe]

....Motion-Jpeg A medium quality works pretty well with Catalyst... It has similar issues to photo-jpeg in the variable data rate stakes.

Often you have to use MJPEG-A as everybody seems to always need the maximum of layers.With that codec you anyway can make bigger content then 720x576 (pal) when zooming in the clips.

I agree that medium quality is work pretty well, but when doing contents with gradients,you see the actual quality and that is not always what you want.
I prefer to do the "gradient stuff" in Photo-JPEG high quality when using it as max 2 layers and the rest in MJPEG-A medium quality.

[samsc]

Often you have to use MJPEG-A as everybody seems to always need the maximum of layers.With that codec you anyway can make bigger content then 720x576 (pal) when zooming in the clips.

I agree that medium quality is work pretty well, but when doing contents with gradients,you see the actual quality and that is not always what you want.
I prefer to do the "gradient stuff" in Photo-JPEG high quality when using it as max 2 layers and the rest in MJPEG-A medium quality.

you are right. you have to use mpjeg a or photojpeg when using larger or smaller movies than 720x576 or 720x480 - or odd aspect ratios or images like 1000x230 etc.

photojpeg preserves colour information better - but it is much slower than dv. and you will not be able to playback 4 layers.