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Originally Posted by FelixFlow
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There are two sides to this.
If it's made for the internet and .wmv on top of that, an HDV camera is total overkill today. The video that ends up online will never be nearly as good as the source video. The above video may have been shot with a very nice camera, but the end result after encoding is just average. That video could be replicated using a camera costing much, much less.
The internet simply can not yet handle the video capabilities of a high end camera, and considering everything it's going to be a decade before we can stream it.
On the other hand, having great source video now is an insurance that you'll have usable content far down the road after re-encoding by tomorrow's standards.
Imagine if source video that was shot in 1996 for the internet lived up to today's production standards after re-encoding. That material could still be used on quality sites instead of going on megasites and AVS.