I have been a photographer (amateur) for many years, and with the possibility to use my DLSR to produce HD-video my interest for video has increased significantly.
In the world of photography formats are not that many and the RAW format has simplified editing. But... the world of video seems to be much more complicated and complex. Not only are there formats there is also codex.
I have tried to grasp all the information in the subject that is available on internet. I'm more confused after all this reading than I was before. There are many contradictory 'Holy Grail' -truths out there.
We know that it's a good idea to save jpg files in tiff format while working with a picture to avoid artefacts and when the job is done the picture could then be saved back in jpg.
In the world of digital video there is a similarity to jpg in the form of codex. I understand that many means that encoding to a intermediate codex (less compressed) makes the editing more efficient. With editing I mean colour correction and grading. The purpose of encoding is to get rid of information that we don't need to perceive the clip and to make the file smaller with the help of algorithms. Is it then really possible to obtain a better 'raw' material for editing to decode it to a less compressed codex?
I understand that Premiere import most every format and codex to the timeline. Is Premiere only saving changes to a separate file and just leave the original footage until it is time for export? Would it be beneficial to import a less compressed codex in Premiere or SpeedGrade.
My main purpose is to save my videos to a server and show the videos on a HDTV (1920x1080) . What format/codex would you suggest? The material could be avi, mpeg or mov.
I hope you get the core of my questions. Not having English as native language is a ***** as it tends to be too many word. Please bear with me.
