On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 02:26 PM, animal wrote: > I know FCP is a much better editing solution, but I haven't learned it > yet. Do Imovie and FCP use the same codec for downloading, or is the > quality of an exported still going to be better from dv captured via > FCP? > > Thanks > Lynn > Other than the sound and it's identity as a seperate file there is no differ5ence. Data is data. And data is all that goes through the firewire not video .