Originally posted by: Cowclops
No matter how good the analog stage of the Canopus stuff is, it is compressing to a format that will destroy the quality. I use huffyuv lossless compression so there are no digital artifacts whatsoever until I run it through CCE.

I've never heard of huffy. What sort of codec is it? It seems the general workflow on these discs could greatly benifit from some high end gear - hardware translate your analog video to 4:2:2 SDI and capture at 10 bit Uncompressed resolutions. Obviously you're going to have to have a large amount of storage, but you'd quickly factor out artifacts from these other formats.