Another important function of Transcode is being able to convert the project's media into a high-quality \textit{mezzanine} codec \index{mezzanine codec} (sometimes also called \textit{intermediate} codec \index{digital intermediate}), which makes timeline work lighter and more efficient. In fact such codecs (ffv1, ProRes, DNxHD, OpenEXR, huffyuv, etc) are generally little or not at all compressed; the type of compression is intraframe --more suitable for editing, and the image quality (4:2:2 up; 10-bit color up; floating point; etc) is suitable for \textit{Color Correction}, \textit{Chroma Key} and \textit{Rotoscoping}. The use of mezzanine codecs leads to very large files, so you need to make sure you have enough storage space.
Another important function of Transcode is being able to convert the project's media into a high-quality \textit{mezzanine} codec \index{mezzanine codec} (sometimes also called \textit{intermediate} codec \index{digital intermediate}), which makes timeline work lighter and more efficient. In fact such codecs (ffv1, ProRes, DNxHD, OpenEXR, huffyuv, etc) are generally little or not at all compressed; the type of compression is intraframe --more suitable for editing, and the image quality (4:2:2 up; 10-bit color up; floating point; etc) is suitable for \textit{Color Correction}, \textit{Chroma Key} and \textit{Rotoscoping}. The use of mezzanine codecs leads to very large files, so you need to make sure you have enough storage space.