Digi-beta capture - uncompressed 10-bit or prores hq

starting a project that was shot on digi-beta many moons ago. editing on fcp 7. i'm asumming given the difference in the data rate between uncompressed 10-bit & prores hq that there "must" be some compression loss, but is it enough to make it worthwhile capturing in uncompressed 10-bit. obviously prores hq file sizes are much smaller so that shoud make editing easier. i do want to maintain highest quality possible. final product is dvd & digital download. thanks for any advice.

The ProRes envelope is 10-bit, so you're covered on the biggest difference between digi-beta and all the pedestrian standard def formats. "Normal" ProRes 422 is 42 Mbit/s for SD at 29.97, HQ is 63 Mbit/s. Either should serve well.

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