High quality, high bitrate, easy to cut video format. Suggestions?

I need to record a TV program and I was wondering what is the best working format to easily cut commercials and the like.
The final movie will be compressed in theora/vorbis/ogm, but I would need something to work on easily: please not a lossless video codec the output file would be too large.
Suggestions?
Thanks

skottish wrote:If you intend to stay with theora and vorbis, begin there to. Every change of format is going to lessen quality.
That makes no sense. If he's going to re-encode, then the intermediate steps should lose as little quality as possible. If you encode into crappy theora and then re-encode that again with theora, you'll end up with mush. And I really mean that, because theora is terrible at keeping sharpness.
In fact, why use theora at all? If it really needs to be royalty-free at least go with vp8. Though I've seen scenes where even vp8 fails quite badly.
skottish wrote:You may want to consider using matroska for your container until you're done editing though. That way you can use the awesome mkvtoolnix for part of the editing toolchain.
Now that I agree with. Use matroska for the end container, that is. The intermediate formats don't matter what they're in, and in fact it would be better to use AVI for them, because editors tend to have better support for it. Normally h264 shouldn't be put in avi, but in the i-frame only case it's ok.

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