Lagarith vs DV AVI vs Uncompressed Microsoft AVI

There is a question and here is scenario:
I have this source clip:
DV AVI Type 2
PAL, 25 fps
720x576
and want to export from Premiere to intermediate file to later encode to DVD,MP4,FLV...using Mainconcept Reference encoder
What is best codec for this situation?
Thanx

You can also try setting Lagarith to YUY2 mode, which should save you a good amount of disk space without visible degradation.
> to go for a visually lossless codec like Lagarith or HuffYuv
Well, unless you are forcing a particular colorspace (like in my example above) LAGS is truly lossless, not "visually lossless"
> The only arguments I can think of are if nearly the complete timeline requires rendering.
I disagree. I would say that, conversely, if your entire timeline consists of nothing but straight edits of unaltered DV clips then DV is the best choice.
If you have graphics, animation, photographs, titling etc. then you may quite possibly see significant loss by using DV.
> but count on triple the space requirements from your original footage
Yeah, maybe that's a decent estimate: but this also depends greatly on your source. Cleaner footage (such as that which has had noise reduction applied) may not require any more space than DV... and Lagarith often compresses computer-generated graphics more efficiently than DV, which can result in smaller files.

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