capture M2T and convert later?

[Jiri Fiala]

Is there a difference between capturing native HDV M2T file and converting to Cineform AVI later and capturing directly to Cineform AVI? Thanks!

[Graham Hickling]

In terms of the resulting files, no difference at all.

Capturing directly does save some time, because the conversion is happening as a background process concurrently with the footage transfer over firewire.

[Hugh Mobley]

I do both and have found that avi is ok but if I want to use conversion to mov I capture as m2t then convert, vegas 8 does like large amounts of mov. files at once. the more I use mov. conversion in cineform the better I like the rendered files, rendering into mpeg4 gives me slightly better quality. cineform is fairly fast conversion either at capture or later on

[Jiri Fiala]

I was asking mainly about quality, I know that later conversion takes some time.

Thanks!