On Sat, 19 May 2001 02:41:41 -0400, "Mark & Mary Ann Weiss" wrote:

>I'm trying to verify whether I will be introducing gen loss by doing
>multi-level cuts-only editing on a bunch of DV clips and then exporting that
>to DV format AVI files for later editing at another time. I am exporting
>with the "recompress" option NOT selected. I believe that editing and saving
>in this manner introduces no loss of quality to my video. Is this a correct
>appraisal of the situation? Thanks to anyone who can verify this.

The "recompress" option should never be used with
Mini-DV->Mini->DV, and, yes, if you do not force
a rendering (with recompression) of any footage (by
not modifying it except with cuts and rearrangements),
there will be no losses (other than from dropouts).