Re: Safe to continuously modify videos?

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Yeah wrote:
Thanks for the response! :)

However, my question was: if I keep editing the same
video FILE (i.e. WMV), does the quality degrade over time?
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Sorry, I thought you would be editing the project file and not the completed .wmv or .avi movie file.

It stands to reason that repetitive re-saves
of any highly compressed file would result
in quality loss.

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