1080 appple codec / compresssion ?

Is the codec that Apple uses when you capture 1080i from a HD camera (sony HDR-HC1)the same in FCE-HD and FCP-HD?
The footage I capture is slightly (just slightly) not as smooth as the orginal when I watch it through the camera on a big screen.
I guess my real question is there a way to improve this "capture quality"?
I'm using 300GB external firewire drive to capture to.
William

FCP does HDV natively. FCE uses the Apple Intermediate Codec, but it's still an HD format. That's determined by frame resolution, not the codec. You can really bad HD, and you can have good HD. HDV is the bottom of the HD food chain. There's DVCPRO HD, XDCAM, and HDCAM, all of which use the same frame resolutions but at higher and higher data rates.

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HI Gerard, yep its there.I have recently bought a HVX-200 and imported my first 1080/25P. It's not on the EASY SETUP.
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Thanks a lot for your quick and detailed response!
Maximum image quality and file size are not the same thing, for a start.
Yes, but with JPG's they tend to be correlated, aren't they?
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Oh, I always thought iPhoto makes a copy of the orginial and modfies that ...
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
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Ah, that is cool. That solves my problem.
If you use drag and drop from the iPhoto Window that's a form of exporting too -but you have no options there. You get the iPhoto Preview. That's a 'handy-good-enough-for-most-things version of the shot. If you want more options use the export command.
That's what I tripped over. (I used the email feature from within iPhoto for a quick sharing ...)
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> okay, let me be more general
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