The footage used in this test was taken with a Canon XL-1, then digitized at 3:1 MJPEG compression on a Fast Video Machine(y/c input) with the non-linear DPR option. The clip was split into 900kb Tiff files, and imported into Premiere 4.2 at 30fps.
It was then cropped, gamma corrected, and put into the slo-mo format you see now. The resulting uncompressed avi was sized at 240x180, and it is approximately 65MB in size. All of the codecs used the same source file or an exact copy of it.
This clip is an encoding nightmare for several reasons. Perhaps the biggest problem is the super-fast zoom out and pan, followed immediately by the title screen. The D/A, A/D conversion and subsequent re-digitalization to MJPEG didn't help at all. The audio in the final avi was only 8-bit, unfortunately. Between that and the slo-mo work done by Premiere, this source file wasn't the best it could have been. However, for our testing purposes, it worked out well.
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