CapableMetal said:
It does lead to huge file sizes but the result you get is generally faster and more compatible than MPEG2 (which is very compatible itself, but slower to edit with, at least on all of my systems). I have 6.5TB of storage so space is admittedly not much of an issue. It all depends on what you're trying to do, if you're looking at frame differences then MPEG2 is a perfectly acceptable choice. I've done similar things with h264 encoded videos on occasion, its just slow at seeking frames. For capturing or editing, however, I never stray from lossless codecs; files aren't as big as uncompressed AVI, and you aren't compressing to a lossy format (such as capturing straight to MPEG2) before filtering/editing.
Yeah, but since the TB version which I'm working with is in mpeg2 I thought what would synch up best would be another mpeg2 file. And I'm getting really short on space with all these Star Wars projects! haha