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The way i usually do it is capture everything DV via Firewire, since you gain nothing by capturing uncompressed (because it's already compressed on the tape). Now I usually edit and colour correct in DV to keep the real time capabilities and everything that is done in Combustion (or any other FX, compositing or graphics app) is saved as uncompressed. Now when everything is finished I duplicate the sequence and switch it to uncompressed (or photo-jpg at 75% which is good enough if you work with DV footage), render and export as Quicktime movie. That way your footage won't get recompressed to DV. You can throw a chroma smoothing filter on the clips, just make sure it's first in the list of filters. This only makes sense if you use titles, vector graphics or loads of filters.

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